CONTENTS
Preface
Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood
Introduction: International Politics in the Early Post-Stalin Era: A Lost Opportunity, a Turning Point, or More of the Same?
Mark Kramer
Part I: The Soviet Union and the United States after Stalin
1. The Elusive Detente: Stalin's Successors and the West
Vojtech Mastny
2. The Perils of Coexistence: Peace and Propaganda in Eisenhower's Foreign Policy
Kenneth Osgood
3. A Missed Chance for Peace? Opportunities for
Détente in Europe
Jerald A. Combs
4. Poisoned Apples: John Foster Dulles and the "Peace Offensive"
Lloyd Gardner
Part II: The Peace Offensives in Cultural Context
5. Meanings of Peace: The Rhetorical Cold War after Stalin
Ira Chernus
6. Stalin's Ghost: Cold War Culture and U.S.-Soviet Relations
Jeffrey Brooks
Part III: Fragile Coalitions, East and West
7. The Road to Geneva 1955: Churchill's Summit Diplomacy and Anglo-American Tension after Stalin's Death
Klaus Larres
8. Alliance Politics after Stalin's Death: Franco-American Conflict in Europe and in Asia
Kathryn C. Statler
9. Coexistence and Confrontation: Sino-Soviet Relations after Stalin
Qiang Zhai
10. The New Course: Soviet Policy toward Germany and the Uprising in the GDR
Hope M. Harrison
Part IV: Assessing Peaceful Coexistence
11. Cold War,
Détente, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Csaba
Békés
12. The Robust Assertion of Austrianism: Peaceful Coexistence in Austria after Stalin's Death
Günter Bishof
13. The Lure of Neutrality: Finland and the Cold War
Jussi M. Hanhimaki
14. Treacherous Ground: Soviet-Japanese Relations and the United States
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
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