{"product_id":"counter-revolution-20th-century-us-foreign-policy-9780717807659","title":"Counter Revolution 20th Century US Foreign Policy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany people are too young to have witnessed what the United States did when revolution erupted in Cuba. Others from a previous generation remember the effort to snuff out the Cuban Revolution, while U.S. support of Chiang Kai-shek against the Chinese revolutionaries happened before their time. Almost nobody who observed day-to-day the actions of the United States against the Russian Revolution is still around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe effort to put down revolution has been a central focus of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century, especially since World War II. Not only did the United States work to keep revolutions in Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua, and other countries from winning, but it maintained a strong hostility for years, even decades, after they had won. Many writers trace the beginning of the cold war from 1945 without considering what went before. Actually, the cold war was in good part a continuation of the deep hostility of the United States to the 1917 Russian Revo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884264763735,"sku":"9780717807659","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/counter-revolution-20th-century-us-foreign-policy-9780717807659","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}