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- English
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The Longman Companion to America, Russia and the Cold War, 1941-1998
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This reference guide throws light on almost every aspect of postwar international history from the rise of Mao's China to the Bosnian Civil War. It provides a huge wealth of information on East-West relations setting events, crises and conflicts in their full international context.
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Index
Abakumov, V. 252
Abkhazia 72, 74, 130
Acheson, D. 15, 187
Adenauer, K. 15, 23, 26, 30, 35, 141, 156, 178, 197, 203, 249
Afghanistan 52–56, 61–64, 72, 77–78, 117–119, 143, 145, 163, 205, 207, 213, 231, 241, 245, 247, 253, 260
Agnew, S. 46, 211
Aidid, General 72–74
Akromeyev, S. 193
Albania 8–10, 13, 32, 40, 52, 69–70, 77–78, 85, 95, 100, 125, 159, 182–184
Albright, M. 187
Algeria 22, 27–28, 33, 211–212, 264
Alia, R. 125
Allen, R. 188, 234
Allende, S. 42, 46, 109, 214, 241–242, 251
Alliance for Progress 31, 239, 264–265
Ames, A. 74, 242
Amin, H. 54, 117
Anderson, D. 188
Andropov, Y. 46, 58–59, 191–192, 203, 208, 212, 219, 252, 260
Anglo-Soviet Pact 4, 22, 151, 170
Angola 48–50, 60, 63–64, 70, 73, 75, 111–113, 207, 245, 253
Annan, K. 79, 198
Antarctic Treaty 30
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 58, 60, 142–143, 158–159, 263
Anti-Party Plot 2...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of maps
- Acknowledgements to the first edition
- Acknowledgements to the second edition
- List of abbreviations
- Dedication
- Section One: Chronology
- Section Two: Crises and conflicts
- Section Three: Conferences and Summits
- Section Four: Major treaties and organisations
- Section Five: Major office-holders (to December 1997)
- Section Six: Biographies
- Section Seven: Glossary
- Section Eight: Strategic nuclear weapons: the US and the Soviet balance, 1956–79
- Section Nine: Bibliography
- Section Ten: Maps
- Index