Описание: The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe.Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots, and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values. This work challenges prevailing historical assumptions and unearths the ways Moscow and Washington developed nuclear weapons policies based not on rational strategic or technical considerations, but in power struggles between different institutions pursuing their own narrow self-interests.
Описание: The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering reappraisal of its American counterpart, Edward M. Geist compares how the two superpowers tried, and mostly failed, to reinforce their societies to withstand the ultimate catastrophe.
Drawing on previously unexamined documents from archives in America, Russia, and Ukraine, Geist places these civil defense programs in their political and cultural contexts, demonstrating how each country's efforts reflected its cultural preoccupations and blind spots, and revealing how American and Soviet civil defense related to profound issues of nuclear strategy and national values. This work challenges prevailing historical assumptions and unearths the ways Moscow and Washington developed nuclear weapons policies based not on rational strategic or technical considerations, but in power struggles between different institutions pursuing their own narrow self-interests.
Автор: Mew Constant Название: Lost love letters of Heloise and Abelard ISBN: 0230608132 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230608139 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This new edition offers fascinating insights into one of the most celebrated love affairs of the Middle Ages. A new chapter charts the debate about the letters and offers fresh evidence to attribute them to Abelard and Heloise. The complete Latin text is reproduced with an annotated translation by Chiavaroli and Mews.
Автор: Hatzaki, Myrto Название: Beauty and the male body in Byzantium ISBN: 0230007155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230007154 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world.
Название: Illusion of statehood ISBN: 1789760321 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789760323 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 36784.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Horsfield, Dorothy Название: Russia in the wake of the cold war ISBN: 1498552196 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498552196 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines the enduring Cold War legacies underpinning Western perceptions of contemporary Russia under President Vladimir Putin. It analyzes the ways in which the West has interpreted and reacted to Russia`s domestic authoritarianism and foreign policy behavior and argues for diplomatic engagement based on liberal pluralism.
Описание: This book interrogates how people engage with their violent past, both within their families and as members of a national community, when living in an extremely complicated society with a short history of independence and a desire to belong to Europe.
Автор: Wall, Stephen (former Member Of The British Diplomatic Service) Название: Reluctant european ISBN: 0198840675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198840671 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5146.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This broad-ranging and accessible volume tells the story of a relationship rooted in a thousand years of British history, and of our sense of national identity in conflict with our political and economic need for partnership with continental Europe.
Автор: Arnau Gonzalez I Vil Название: The illusion of statehood ISBN: 1789760348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789760347 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12633.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In October 1936, as the Spanish Civil War turned a tension in peripheral Europe into a European disaster, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy signed a series of agreements detailing the need for "a common action...to prevent the creation and consolidation of a Catalan State." The backdrop to the revolutionary charades, the self-evident dangers of "totalitarian states," and the conservative enthusiasms of Franco's "Spanish nationalists" lay in the potential of Catalonia seceding. What would be the internal and international implications? Contributors to the volume trace the convictions of journalists, observers, and diplomats that a Catalan split-off was inevitable. But Catalan politics blew in quite another way, later reacting to Soviet dis-interest and British indecisiveness, amongst a host of other pressures. The Illusion of Statehood takes the reader away from the bluster of left/right politics and the potentialities of social revolution toward a better understanding of how Catalan independence was viewed by European states and powers. This thoughtfully argued book is essential reading for all historians.
Описание: An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. One of these, Prussian Army officer Johann August Ernst von Willich, led a remarkable life of integrity, and interaction with leading lights of the nineteenth century. In this volume, David Dixon chronicles the life of this ingenious military leader.
Автор: Bergmane, Una (Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Helsinki University) Название: Politics of Uncertainty ISBN: 0197578349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197578346 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1989 three Soviet republics-Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, known as Baltic countries-started a determined push for independence, risking to destabilize the Soviet Union and to derail international negotiations on German reunification. Politics of Uncertainty traces Soviet and American responses to Baltic claims for independence and, in doing so, sheds light on the end of the Cold War.
Автор: Ilonszki, Gabriella Название: Perceptions of the European Union in New Member States ISBN: 1138874825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138874824 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4439.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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