Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T08:04:07.880Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Origins of the Cold War and the Problems of Synthesis: A Review of Recent Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Richard Crockatt
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Review Article
Information
Contemporary European History , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , November 1995 , pp. 383 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 John, Lewis Gaddis, ‘The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War’, Diplomatic History, Vol. 7 (Summer 1983), 171.Google Scholar

2 The term and the idea behind it is Herbert Butterfield's, as cited by Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr, in ‘The Cold War Revisited’, New York Review of Book, 25 Oct. 1979, 46.Google Scholar

3 Gaddis, John, ‘The Tragedy of Cold War History’, Diplomatic History, Vol. 17 (Winter 1993), 7–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 The fact that the conference on which this book is based took place in 1985 perhaps explains this omission. One wonders, though, why it took so long to publish the book.