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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

by John Lewis Gaddis · 1997

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Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, We Now Knowprovides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis.

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We Now Knowstands as a powerful vindication of US policy throughout the period, and as a thought-provoking reassessment of the Cold War by one of its most distinguished historians.

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war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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American historyAmerican historyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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Cold WarCold WarMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 448 pages

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