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Cold War illusions

America, Europe, and Soviet power, 1969-1989

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An edition of Cold War illusions (1995)

Cold War illusions

America, Europe, and Soviet power, 1969-1989

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The Soviet empire entered its steepest decline and fall in the very years that Washington was captivated by the specter of a rising Soviet threat. How did American elites get it so wrong?

In this important book, Dana Allin combines a masterful narrative of the Cold War with a fascinating dissection of the fallacies upon which its surreal pessimism was based. He focuses on the so-called "second Cold War" that followed the detente of the early 1970s, and on Europe, which remained the central battlefield and prize of that ideological struggle.

By suggesting that Western Europe was on the verge of being neutralized, or "Finlandized," by Soviet blackmail, American neoconservatives were able to create a picture of Soviet strength and Western weakness that was, in fact, the very reverse of reality.

Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Allin analyzes the military, political and economic errors that distorted this picture. His sober and balanced account gives due credit to the uncertainties and complexities of foreign-policy making in a nuclear age. But one conclusion stands out clearly: Given the real balance of power that existed in 1979, recent efforts to give credit to Reagan "toughness" for winning the Cold War are little more than historical caricature.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
267

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Cold War Illusions: America, Europe and Soviet Power, 1969-1989
March 15, 1998, Palgrave Macmillan
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Cold War illusions: America, Europe, and Soviet power, 1969-1989
1995, St. Martin's Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
327.7304/09/045
Library of Congress
E840 .A594 1995, E840.A594 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 267 p. ;
Number of pages
267

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Open Library
OL1103742M
Internet Archive
coldwarillusions00alli
ISBN 10
0312123744
LCCN
94028776
OCLC/WorldCat
30813901
Goodreads
6711639

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There were distant battles of Vietcong and Mujahideen and contras; but the Cold War was settled in Europe, where it began.
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