Silvio Pons – Federico Romero, eds. Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War.

Contents

Introduction / SILVIO PONS – FEDERICO ROMERO

PART I

Long duration, globalization and the changing frame of the Cold War

1 – The Cold War as an era of imperial rivalry / CHARLES S. MAIER

2 – Power, politics, and the long duration of the Cold War / MARK KRAMER

3 – On recule pour mieux sauter, or ‘What needs to be done’ (to understand the 1970s) / LEOPOLDO NUTI

4 – The Cold War considered as a US project / ANDERS STEPHANSON

5 – Beginnings of the end: how the Cold War crumbled / ODD ARNE WESTAD

6 – Karol Wojtyla and the end of the Cold War / AGOSTINO GIOVAGNOLI

PART II

The end of the Cold War and the downfall of Soviet communism

7 – Economic information in the life and death of the Soviet command system / MARK HARRISON

8 – Ideas and the end of the Cold War: rethinking intellectual and political change / ROBERT ENGLISH

9 – Unwrapping an enigma: Soviet elites, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War / VLADISLAV M. ZUBOK

10 – 1989: history is rewritten / JONATHAN HASLAM

11 – Gorbachev and the demise of east European communism / MARK KRAMER

12 – The end of Soviet communism: a review / FRANCESCO BENVENUTI – SILVIO PONS