List of illustrations
Preface
Chronology
Who’s who
Maps
1 The background
2 The United States and the Soviet Union before 1941
3 The World in 1945 and today
4 Secrecy and the state
5 Stalin and his books
6 The Second Front
7 Operation Unthinkable and Operation Pincher: The Third World War?
8 The geopolitics of the Cold War
9 Eastern Europe
10 The Middle East
11 Latin America
12 Africa and the Caribbean
14 India
15 Pakistan
16 Southeast Asia
17 Japan
18 China
19 Atomic diplomacy
20 Bretton Woods, the IMF and the World Bank
21 Conflict over Germany and the Soviet Union in a new light
22 The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
23 The Soviet response
24 Espionage
25 Culture wars
26 Who was responsible for the Cold War?
27 The United Nations and the concept of collective security
28 Conclusion
Documents
Further reading
Index
Biography
Martin McCauley is a prolific author and broadcaster who has had a wealth of experience in Russian and international affairs. He taught at the University of London for over 30 years and his recent publications include Stalin and Stalinism (3rd edition, 2018) and The Cold War 1949–2016 (2017).
