Martin McCauley's best-selling Seminar Study unravels the complex issues which gave rise to the Cold War. Updated and expanded, this new edition provides students with an invaluable introduction to the subject.

• The Cold War is an increasingly popular option on second/third year options
• Also useful to studends of politics and international ralations
• This is one of the top-selling Seminar Studies
• Easy to read, accessible writing style for students
• Lots of new material and recently released information to be included
• Martin McCauley is an extremely well-known and respected author.

Table of Contents

Chronology Abbreviations Who's Who Glossary Maps List of plates PART ONE: Background 1. Setting the Scene PART TWO: Descriptive analysis 2. Moscow's View of the World 3. Conflicts During the War 4. 1945: The Turning Point 5. Decisions Which Led to Division 6. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan 7. The Soviet Response PART THREE: Assessment 8. Was it all Inevitable? PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS FURTHER READING REFERENCES

About the Author

Martin McCauley is former Senior lecturer in Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. An extremely accomplished author, he has written three other Seminar Studies volumes: The Khruschev Era, Russia, America and the Cold War and Stalin and Stalinism and two trade history books for Longman History: Bandits, Gangsters and the Mafia and Afghanistan and Central Asia.