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Book SynopsisOn the Battlefields of the Cold War offers unique insight into the volatile inner workings of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, where the battle lines of the Cold War were often first drawn. Israelyan brings to this memoir a wealth of experience, having worked with all the postwar Soviet foreign ministers and established diplomatic ties to the West.
Trade Review“While this is a work primarily for specialists and will not engender any grand revisions of our thinking about major aspects of the Cold War, such histories are useful because they show us how Soviet foreign policy was understood by those who carried it out and who, as Israelyan shows, became progressively disenchanted with the nonsense they had to espouse. Moreover, the author effectively conveys some of the atmosphere of the period and the issues that he worked on. Thus scholars who track Soviet foreign policy from 1960 to 1990 will derive considerable benefit from this memoir.”
—Dr. Stephen J. Blank Parameters
“Both for those who experience it only as history and those who have enduring memories of life during that time, On the Battlefields of the Cold War is a fascinating resource in helping better understand this defining era in international relations.”
—Daniel C. Villanueva Rocky Mountain Review
“Israelyan’s prose is brisk and lucid.”
—Jack F. Matlock, Jr. Russian Review
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
1. Training for the Cold War
2. The First Collisions of the Cold War
3. Stalin Is Dead. What Next?
4. Sowing the Seeds of Hatred in Hungary
5. The Khrushchev Style of Diplomacy
6. Thaws and Frosts
7. On the Diplomatic Sidelines
8. The Battlefield, UN
9. The Soviet Union’s 105th Veto
10. The Cold War on the Middle East Front
11. China—A New Front in the Cold War
12. Time to Go Home
13. The Soviet Diplomatic Headquarters at Smolenskaya Square
14. An Uneasy Truce in the Cold War
15. The Apotheosis of the Cold War
16. Marking Time
17. The Beginning of the End of the Cold War
18. Feigned Friendship
19. Farewell to the Cold War
Conclusion
Index
