United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 [Hardcover]

John Lewis Gaddis is professor of history at Yale UniversityJohn Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces—domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and perceptions of Soviet intentions—that influenced key decision makers in Washington, and in doing so seeks to analyze these determinants of policy in terms of their full diversity and relative significance.[T]he most satisfactory post-revisionist treatment of American policy making to date.History moves fast, and it is a rare book that stays current after almost 30 years. John Gaddis's "postrevisionist" study of how the United States and Soviet Union got themselves into such sterile conflict of interests following the defeat of the Axis remains one of the best books available on this crucial period.An exceptionally elegant and detached example of post revisionism. (from the first edition)Preface to the New Edition
Preface
Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes
1. The Past as Prologue: The American Vision of the Postwar World
2. The Soviet Union and World Revolution: the American View, 1941-1944
3. Cooperating for Victory: Defeating Germany and Japan
4. Repression versus Rehabilitation: The Problem of Germany
5. Security versus Self-Determination: The Problem of Eastern Europe
6. Economic Relations: Lend-Lease and the Russian Loan
7. Victory and Transition: Harry S. Truman and the Russians
8. The Impotence of Omnipotence: American Diplomacy, the Atomic Bomb, and the Postwar World
9. Getting Tough with Russia: The Reorientation of American Policy, 1946
10. To the Truman Doctrine: Implementing the New Pol“8