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Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, consists of cutting-edge essays by distinguished experts who discuss the Cold War in Europe from beginning to end, with a particular focus on the countries that were behind the iron curtain.

List of contents

Introduction
By Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana
Part 1. Central Europe and the Onset of the Iron Curtain
Chapter 1. Stalin, Soviet Policy, and the Establishment of a Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe, 1941-1949
By Mark Kramer
Chapter 2. The United States and Eastern Europe, 1943-1948
By Michael F. Hopkins
Chapter 3. Concessions or Conviction? Czechoslovakia's Road to the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc
By Vít Smetana
Chapter 4. Hungary's Role in the Soviet Bloc, 1945-1956
By László Borhi
Chapter 5. Stalin, the Split with Yugoslavia, and Soviet-East European Efforts to Reassert Control, 1948-1953
By Mark Kramer
Chapter 6. Austria, Germany, and the Cold War, 1945-1955
By Rolf Steininger
Chapter 7. Neutrality for Germany or Stabilizing the Eastern Bloc? New Evidence on the Decision-Making Process of the Stalin Note
By Peter Ruggenthaler
Part 2. The German Question and Intra-Bloc Politics in the Post-Stalin Era
Chapter 8. The Berlin Wall: Looking Back on the History of the Wall Twenty Years after Its Fa

About the author

Mark Kramer is director of Cold War Studies at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, where he is also a Senior Fellow.

Vit Smetana is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Republic's Academy of Sciences and teaches modern international history at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague.

Summary

Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, consists of cutting-edge essays by distinguished experts who discuss the Cold War in Europe from beginning to end, with a particular focus on the countries that were behind the iron curtain.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Kramer
• Assisted by: Mark Kramer (Editor), Kramer Mark (Editor), Vit Smetana (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9780739181850
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8185-0
• Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series; Harvard Cold War Studies Books; The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era