The End of the Post-War Era
Documents on Great-Power Relations 1968-1975

Between the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the singing of the Helinski accords in August 1975, major changes occurred in the condition of the East-West conflict.

James Mayall (Edited by), Cornelia Navari (Edited by)

9780521089678, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2008

664 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.96 kg

Between the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the singing of the Helinski accords in August 1975, major changes occurred in the condition of the East-West conflict and more generally in the structure of great-power relations which had been built up since the end of the Second World War. This collection of documents, which includes the main speeches, treaties and agreements concluded between these two events, has been designed to illustrate the nature of these changes. The volume if prefaced by an analytical essay by the editors, and is subsequently divided into six sections. The first four deal respectively with the final ending of the cold war through the resolution of the problem of the two Germanies; the ending of the Vietnam War and the formal entry of the People's Republic of China into the international system; the diplomacy of detente between the super-powers and in Europe; and changes within the Western Alliance involving both NATO and the EEC, and in the Warsaw Pact.

Preface
Source Abbreviations
Note on the texts of the documents
Introduction
1. The end of the cold war
2. The diplomacy of detente
3. Changes in the western alliance
4. The Warsaw treaty organisation
5. The great powers and the middle east war of October 1973
6. The crisis of the international economic order.

Subject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [HBLW3], General & world history [HBG]