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Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings... read more

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IT has become almost obligatory to begin histories of the Cold War with Tocqueville's famous prophecy, made more than a century before the events it foresaw had come to pass.

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  1. John Lewis Gaddis (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Clarendon Press
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Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0198780702
Page Count: 440

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