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The decades-long Cold War was more than a bipolar conflict between two superpowers - it had implications for the entire world. The author provides here new insights and perspectives on key events with an emphasis on people, power, and ideas. The book goes beyond US-USSR relations to explore the Cold War from an international perspective, including developments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The author also offers a broader time line of the Cold War than any other text, charting the lead-up to the conflict from the Russian Revolution to World War II and discussing the aftermath of the Cold War up to the present day. The second edition reflects the latest research and scholarship and offers additional information about the post-Cold War period, including the 'new Cold War' with Russia.

COLD WAR--HISTORY

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As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment : the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely.This book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War.

COLD WAR--HISTORY

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Pour mieux comprendre le XXe siècle, ce dictionnaire propose un panorama des guerres marquantes du siècle dernier, de la Première Guerre mondiale à la guerre contre le terrorisme. Chaque article développe les causes du ou des conflits concernés, détaille leur déroulement, analyse les enseignements que l'on peut en tirer.

War --- History --- War - History - 20th century

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While many books examine specific wars, few study the history of war worldwide and from an evolutionary perspective. This book is one of the first works to focus not on the impact of war on civilizations, but rather on how civilizations impact the art and execution of war. The author concentrates on the peoples and cultures who have determined how war is conducted and reveals the lasting historical consequences of combat, offering a unique picture of the major geopolitical and civilizational clashes that have rocked our common history and made us who we are today. The author's questions provoke a new understanding of the development of armed conflict. How did the foremost non-European empires rise and fall ? What critical role did the nomads of the Eurasian steppes and their descendants play ? The author illuminates the military cultures and martial traditions of the great Eurasian empires, including Turkey, China, Iran, and Mongolia. Based on fifteen years of research, this book provides a novel military and strategic perspective on the crises and conflicts that have shaped the current world order.

WAR--HISTORY --- WAR AND CIVILIZATION--HISTORY --- STRATEGY--HISTORY

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The authors analyze feature films from Germany, Italy, Japan, France, Great Britain, and the United States that are characteristic for their cinematic engagement with the past as well as contemporary political and social problems. The volume makes a contribution to the comparative history of post-war societies and at the same time advocates the value of feature films as sources for contemporary history. Zwischen gestern und morgen: Der Titel eines deutschen Spielfilms von 1947 kennzeichnet die Umbruchs- und Übergangsphase der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes analysieren Spielfilme aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien, Japan, der Sowjetunion und den Vereinigten Staaten, die für die filmische Verarbeitung der Vergangenheit sowie der Gegenwartsprobleme und Zukunftserwartungen charakteristisch sind. Damit leistet das Buch einen Beitrag zur vergleichenden Geschichte der Nachkriegsgesellschaften und ist zugleich ein Plädoyer für den zeithistorischen Quellenwert von Spielfilmen.

Filmgeschichte. --- Gesellschaftsgeschichte. --- Nachkriegsgeschichte. --- Post-war history. --- film history. --- social history.