The Making of Détente : Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam /

Historian Keith Nelson details the circumstances and traces the steps that led to the first significant accommodation and easing of tension between the superpowers during the Cold War. He shows that this occurred because historical developments combined in both countries to create a scarcity of the...

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Main Author: Nelson, Keith L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Edition:Open access edition.
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