Debating the origins of the Cold War:American and Russian perspectives

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Levering Ralph B.
Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Publisher Address: Lanham, Md.
Publication Dates: c2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Debating twentieth-century America
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Carrier Form: vi, 200 p., [8] p. of plates: ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0847694070 (alk. paper)
0847694089 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: D871
CLC: D871.225.12
D851.227.12
Call Number: D871.225.12/D286
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186) and index.
The American perspective / Ralph B. Levering and Verena Botzenhart-Viehe -- Documents: 1: The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941 -- 2: "Comment on the results of the decisions made at the Yalta Conference" -- 3: George F. Kennan's "Long telegram," February 1946 -- 4: Secretary of State James Byrnes's speech in Stuttgart on Germany's future, September 6, 1946 -- 5: Speech by J. Edgar Hoover, director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the annual convention of the American Legion in San Francisco, September 30, 1946 -- 6: Henry A. Wallace's speech in New York City, September 12, 1946 -- 7: President Harry S. Truman's speech to Congress, March 12, 1947 -- The Russian perspective / Vladimir O. Pechatnov and C. Earl Edmondson -- Documents: 1: Stalin to "Politburo four" ((Vyacheslav) Molotov, (Lavrenti) Beria, (Anastas) Mikoyan, and (Georgy) Malenkov), ciphered (coded) telegram, December 9, 1945 -- 2: A compilation of (written) comments on draft treaties regarding demilitarization and disarmament of Germany and Japan proposed by (U.S. Secretary of State James) Byrnes, June 8, 1946 -- 3: The (Nikolai) Novikov report ("telegram") -- 4: The Minister of State Security appeals for measures to close down British propaganda in the U.S.S.R. -- 5: Instructions for the Soviet delegation to the meeting of foreign ministers in Paris, June 25, 1947 -- 6: Record of I(osef) V(issarionivich) Stalin's conversation with the Czechoslovak government delegation on the issue of their position regarding the Marshall Plan and the prospects for economic cooperation with the U.S.S.R. -- 7: Record of the meeting of Comrade I(osef) V(issarionivich) Stalin with the Secretary of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party (Maurice) Thorez -- 8: Report by L.P. Beria and I.V. Kurchatov to I.V. Stalin on preliminary data received during the atomic bomb test.