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The further we get from the withering away of the Cold War, the more likely we are to benefit from dispassionate and solid analytical accounts of the struggle. Fink, professor emeritus of history at Ohio State, has provided a compact, objective, and insightful account that illustrates how disputes over the post-WWII fate of Europe morphed into a conflict that engulfed regions across the world. For the populations in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the Cold War often became intensely hot. Fink includes the necessary historical context by examining the foreign relations of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution and the subsequent fear and suspicions that lay behind Soviet policy toward the West. Fink broadens her account to include China and the Chinese enigmatic relations with the supposed Soviet allies. She deftly illustrates how Third World nations became hapless pawns in the broader geopolitical struggle, and she concludes with a sharp description of the residual effects of the Cold War upon the major and minor participants. This is an ideal introductory text for college students and general readers. --Jay Freeman

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AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY

CAROLE K. FINK

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fink, Carole, 1940-

Cold War : an international history / Carole K. Fink, The Ohio State University.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8133-4796-7 (ebook) 1. Cold War. 2. World politics1945-1989. 3. Cold WarInfluence. I. Title.

D843.F456 2014

909.825--dc23

2013029847

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To my students

CONTENTS

Almost three years ago I decided to transform my many years of teaching and - photo 5

Almost three years ago I decided to transform my many years of teaching and - photo 6

Almost three years ago I decided to transform my many years of teaching and writing on the Cold War into an accessible book for twenty-first-century readers. It has been a fascinating task to revisit the rivalry between the worlds first communist state and the Western powers, one that consumed a major portion of the twentieth century and altered its politics and economy along with its physical, social, and cultural environment.

Although the Cold Wars unexpected end led to an unprecedented opening of archival sources and the publication of numerous memoirs and books, there have been few efforts up to now to view this conflict in a broad international perspective. Based on new evidence along with the observations and analyses of contemporaries and two generations of scholarship, this book is an attempt to comprehend the Cold War as a dynamic rivalry, one in which large and small powers and diverse groups of people maneuvered in a militarized and divided world.

I thank my original editor, Priscilla McGeehon, and her successor, Ada Fung, and their able assistant, Stephen Pinto, for their generous support, and Annie Lenth, Carolyn Sobczak, and Beth Wright for bringing this book to completion. I thank David Lincove, History, Political Science, and Philosophy Librarian at The Ohio State University, and Sue Ann Cody, Associate University Librarian for Public Services Emerita, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, for helping me obtain research materials. The late Terry Benjey, a devoted friend and computer mentor, provided superb technical assistance. I thank family and friends who have given unstinting support to this project: Renate Bridenthal, Nan Cameron, Sandi Cooper, Emily Davidson, Muriel Dimen, Hilda Godwin, John Haley, Dorothy Kahn, Joyce Kuhn, Marjorie Madigan, Richard Nochimson, Peter Schuck, Ben Steelman, and Juanita Winner. My son, Stefan Harold Fink, has made my move to Wilmington, North Carolina, a joy.

Thanks also to the reviewers who provided such thoughtful feedback on this project: John Chambers (Rutgers University), David Messenger (University of Wyoming), Thomas Maulucci (American International College), Cristofer Scarboro (Kings College), and Michael Slattery (Campbell University).

I am grateful to all my students (including the recent Cold War class in OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington) for their inspiration and especially to Stuart J. Hilwig (19682012), who will long be remembered as a wise, witty, and extraordinarily dedicated scholar and teacher.

Wilmington, North Carolina

March 2013

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ABM

Antiballistic Missiles

AK

Armia KrajowaHome Army (Poland)

ANC

African National Congress (South Africa)

APEC

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

ASEAN

Association of Southeastern Asian Nations

Benelux

Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg

CCP

Chinese Communist Party

CDU

Christlich Demokratische Union DeutschlandsChristian Democratic Union (Germany)

CFM

Council of Foreign Ministers (Britain, China, France, United States, USSR)

CHR

Commission on Human Rights (UN)

CGDK

Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia)

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency (United States)

Comecon

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (USSR-directed, sometimes referred to as CMEA)

Cominform

Communist Information Bureau

Comintern

Communist International

CSCE

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

EEC

European Economic Community

ETIM

East Turkestan Islamic Movement

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