Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) - Tapa blanda

Mitrovich, Gregory

 
9780801475771: Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
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ISBN 10: 0801475775 ISBN 13: 9780801475771
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 2009

Sinopsis

Following the Allied victory in World War II, the United States turned its efforts to preventing the spread of Communism beyond Eastern Europe. Gregory Mitrovich argues, however, that the policy of containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power. Drawing on recently declassified U.S. documents, Mitrovich reveals a range of previously unknown covert actions launched during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Through the aggressive use of psychological warfare, officials sought to provoke political crisis among key Soviet leaders, to incite nationalist tensions within the USSR, and to foment unrest across Eastern Europe.Mitrovich demonstrates that inspiration for these efforts did not originate within the intelligence community, but with individuals at the highest levels of policymaking in the U.S. government. National security advisors, Mitrovich asserts, were adamant that the Soviet threat must be eliminated so the United States could create a stable, prosperous international system. Only the shifting balance of power caused by the development of Soviet nuclear weapons forced U.S. leaders to abandon their goal of subverting the Soviet system and accept a world order with two rival superpowers.

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Gregory Mitrovich is a Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.

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Editorial
Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
2009
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801475775
ISBN 13 
9780801475771
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Número de páginas
248
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