2nd Edition
Understanding the Cold War A Historian's Personal Reflections
By Adam B. Ulam
Copyright 2002
432 Pages
by
Routledge
432 Pages
by
Routledge
410 Pages
by
Routledge
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Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the U.S. just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland would have trapped... Read more
One: Farewell to Poland; 1: The Ulams’ Lwów; 2: The Last Summer; 3: Pre-War Poland: An Assessment; Two: A Polish Youth in a New Land; 4: The New Country; A New Life; 5: War Years; 6: A Fugitive Stays with Józef Ulam: George Volsky’s Tale; 7: Echoes of the Holocaust; Three: The Professor; 8: Early Harvard Years; 9: A Young Instructor; 10: Implications of the Cold War; 11: On Being an “Expert”; 12: Lenin; 13: Turbulent Foreign Relations; 14: Vietnam; 15: The Fall of the American University; 16: The Tyrant’s Shadow; 17: Stalin; 18: The Surprising 70s; 19: Mystery Novels & The Kirov Affair; 20: The Curse of the Bomb; 21: Back to the Past with Revolutionary Fervor; 22: The Communist World; 23: Novel Uncertainties; 24: Poland: A Determined and Non-Violent Resistance; 25: Stan; 26: Travels Abroad; 27: Gorbachev and the Beginning of the End; 28: To the Bialowiezha Forest; 29: Russia Again; Four: Postlude; 30: Other Thoughts and Memories; 31: Ending; 32: Adam and His Friends; 33: Review of Adam Ulam’s Professional Career; 34: Notes on Lwów; 35: A Letter from John Kenneth Galbraith
Biography
Adam B. Ulam
