Understanding the Cold War
Transaction Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7658-0885-1 (ISBN)
The core segments of the work review the Cold War from the belly of the Stalinist and later post-Stalinist communist system. And in a section entitled "The Beginning of the End," Ulam discusses the Gorbachev interregnum and the early years of the transition from communism to democracy. He well appreciates how the ease of the transition does not betoken a simple movement to the democratic camp. In contemplating the changing nature of the new political configuration, one could hardly have a better guide to clarity and authenticity than Adam Ulam.
Reviewing Understanding the Cold War, Stephen Kotkin, director of Princeton's Russian Studies Program, observed "...And whereas some celebrated analysts, such as John Maynard Keynes, had dismissed Marxism as 'illogical and dull,' Ulam highlighted the doctrine's intricacy and comprehensiveness, which, he argued, explained its attraction not just to peasants, but also to intellectuals."
Adam B. Ulam (1922-2000) taught at Harvard University from 1947 until his retirement in 1992. He was Professor Emeritus and Gurney Professor of History and Political Science. He was the author of many books, including Prophets and Conspirators in pre-Revolutionary Russia (published by Transaction), Stalin: The Man and His Era, Lenin and the Bolsheviks, The Unfinished Revolution, Philosophical Foundations of English Socialism, and a political novel on The Kirov Affair. Paul Hollander is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a long-standing colleague of Ulam at the Russian Studies Center at Harvard University.
One: Farewell to Poland; 1: The Ulams’ Lwów; 2: The Last Summer; 3: Pre-War Poland: An Assessment; Two: A Polish Youth in a New Land; 4: The New Country; A New Life; 5: War Years; 6: A Fugitive Stays with Józef Ulam: George Volsky’s Tale; 7: Echoes of the Holocaust; Three: The Professor; 8: Early Harvard Years; 9: A Young Instructor; 10: Implications of the Cold War; 11: On Being an “Expert”; 12: Lenin; 13: Turbulent Foreign Relations; 14: Vietnam; 15: The Fall of the American University; 16: The Tyrant’s Shadow; 17: Stalin; 18: The Surprising 70s; 19: Mystery Novels & The Kirov Affair; 20: The Curse of the Bomb; 21: Back to the Past with Revolutionary Fervor; 22: The Communist World; 23: Novel Uncertainties; 24: Poland: A Determined and Non-Violent Resistance; 25: Stan; 26: Travels Abroad; 27: Gorbachev and the Beginning of the End; 28: To the Bialowiezha Forest; 29: Russia Again; Four: Postlude; 30: Other Thoughts and Memories; 31: Ending; 32: Adam and His Friends; 33: Review of Adam Ulam’s Professional Career; 34: Notes on Lwów; 35: A Letter from John Kenneth Galbraith
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.12.2001 |
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Verlagsort | Somerset |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 680 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7658-0885-4 / 0765808854 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7658-0885-1 / 9780765808851 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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