The Cold War von Westad, Odd Arne

For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th...

"Offers meticulous research, drawing on classic reports, recent memoirs, and scholarship in Chinese, Russian, and English based on archival research. . . . More important, (Westad) weaves a grand, sweeping epic of social, cultural, and...

"The Cold War: A World History" von Odd Arne Westad ist eine umfassende Untersuchung des Kalten Krieges, die sich nicht nur auf die politischen und militärischen Aspekte konzentriert, sondern auch auf die sozialen, kulturellen und...

Cold War and Revolution von Westad, Odd Arne

From an award-winning historian, a concise overview of the deep and longstanding ties between China and the Koreas, providing an essential foundation for understanding East Asian geopolitics today. In a concise, trenchant overview, Odd...

Tracing the nation's history from the Qing Dynasty in the eighteenth century to the People's Republic in the twenty-first, the author shows how China's world view has been determined by both its receptiveness and its resistance to...

"The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945–89" von Odd Arne Westad bietet eine umfassende Analyse der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Entwicklungen in Osteuropa unter sowjetischem Einfluss während des Kalten Krieges. Das Buch...