Cold War Crucible
After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.-Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.
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- Full title :Cold War Crucible / Masuda Hajimu.
Summary
After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.-Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 388 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674598478, 0674598474
- oclc:ocn987980098
Table of Contents
Introduction: What was the Cold War? -- Part I. The repercussions -- Naming the unnamable -- Local translation -- Part II. The social -- Cold War fantasy -- Politics of impression -- The truth-making campaign -- Between mobilization and participation -- Part III. The simultaneity -- Social warfare -- "Expose enemies within our gates!" -- People's war at home -- Decolonization as recolonization -- Epilogue: The Cold War as social politics.
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