Lexington Books
Pages: 368
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-5926-3 • Hardback • November 2018 • $135.00 • (£104.00)
978-1-4985-5927-0 • eBook • November 2018 • $121.50 • (£94.00)
Jennifer M. Hudson is lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Chapter 1: Ideological Contagions, 1870–1924
Chapter 2: Interwar Border-Crossings and Identity Crises, 1924–1939
Chapter 3: Peaceful Coexistence during the Great Patriotic War, 1939–1945
Chapter 4: Arms Enthusiasts and Disarmament Devotees, 1946–1959
Chapter 5: Brinkmanship Gives Birth to Détente, 1959–1979
Chapter 6: The Cold War’s Last Breath, 1980–1991
Conclusion: Post-Cold War Relations
Jennifer M. Hudson presents a thoughtful examination of rhetorical themes and strategies utilized by American and Russian political and cultural leaders during each stage of the Cold War era. She ambitiously analyzes diplomatic engagements and intellectual encounters to provide insights on assumptions and perceptions. Hudson mines a wide range of travel accounts, newspaper reports and editorials, artistic and documentary films, government documents, and memoirs for a thought-provoking reflection on the spectrum of responses of Russians and Americans to each other in a variety of settings.— Matthew Lee Miller, University of Northwestern—St. Paul
The book is a good overview of the often complicated interactions between political and cultural aspects of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The author does a particularly admirable job of pointing out how diverse cultural elements served as breaks on each other, preventing the narrative from going too far to the official propaganda side, or depicting the Cold War enemy in too positive a light. Overall, the book can serve as a valuable reading for advanced undergraduate courses on the Cold War.
— The Russian Review