Understanding the Cold War

A Historian's Personal Reflections

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Adam B. Ulam

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Paperback / softback

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This is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the US just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland would have trapped them. Then follows reminiscences of his college and Harvard years, and thoughts as an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs. The volume offers basic anecdotes to simplistic explanations. Whether discussing the Kirov assination or the Moscow Trials of the so-called Trotsyist Bloc, or the nationalist basis of disputes between China and Russia during the Vietnam War period, Ulam aims to avoid the sensational and the speculative in favour of the empirical and the evidentiary.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

December 31st, 2001

Author

Adam B. Ulam

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

2nd edition

Pages

432

Dimensions

152x229x24

ISBN-13

9780765808851

Product ID

3600460

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