The latest episode of "History Lessons with Tamara Eidelman" is dedicated to the history of the Cold War, those difficult decades when the Soviet Union was almost completely cut off from the free world, the Iron Curtain blocked any contacts, and people lived in constant anticipation of the start of World War III. The Cold War sometimes intensified, sometimes weakened, but the confrontation persisted for many years - is it possible today for that terrible era to repeat itself?
BOOKS:
1. John Lewis Gaddis. The Cold War. A New History.
2. Paul Chamberlin. The Cold War’s Killing Fields.
Upcoming performances:
06.03 - Rome, Italy
Canada:
05.04 - Toronto
07.04 - Montreal
09.04 - Ottawa
11.04 - Calgary
12.04 - Vancouver
USA
16.04 - Seattle
19.04 - Palo Alto
21.04 - Los Angeles
25.04 - Washington
27.04 - New York
03.05 - Chicago
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00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture topic
00:00:30 Tamara Eidelman's lectures in Canada
00:01:54 The birth of James Bond
00:04:37 Popularity of James Bond stories
00:06:38 The Cold War in James Bond novels
00:07:54 The beginning and end of the Cold War
00:10:41 "The Long Peace" - what is it really like?
00:13:11 State relations during World War II
00:18:30 Attempts to ensure peace after World War II
00:21:21 Joseph Stalin and his struggle for influence
00:27:05 Nuclear weapons - the US advantage
00:32:10 Tightening of the regime in the USSR
00:33:17 Attempts by states to negotiate after World War II
00:36:17 George Kennan's "Long Telegram"
00:41:16 Winston Churchill's Fulton speech
00:44:28 Options for preventing war
00:46:20 Attempts to establish control over nuclear weapons production
00:49:21 Popularity of communism in post-war Europe
00:51:28 US anti-communist policy and USSR anti-American policy
00:55:30 Marshall Plan - economic recovery in Europe
00:59:28 February events in Czechoslovakia in 1948
01:01:32 Molotov Plan and the creation of the Comecon
01:02:01 First Berlin Crisis
01:08:21 Conflict between the USSR and Yugoslavia
01:11:00 Mao Zedong between the USSR and the USA
01:12:49 The Cold War in Asia. Korean War
01:16:54 First Soviet atomic bomb
01:17:59 The Rosenberg case
01:23:55 Nuclear weapons - a deterrent factor?
01:27:18 The Cold War during the Thaw era
01:29:26 Dwight Eisenhower's new military policy
01:33:56 Mao Zedong and the desire for nuclear war
01:34:53 Flourishing of espionage activities
01:38:46 Fragile balance of peace. Moments when a "hot" war could have started
01:41:49 Lines of world division. Military conflicts and attempts to define spheres of influence
01:44:51 The
Cold War in the 1960s
01:49:07 Détente in the 1970s
01:53:22 Strengthening of the USSR. Military conflicts of the 1970s
01:56:15 Emergence of new forces in third world countries
01:58:33 Feeling of an impending war in the 1980s
02:00:30 How a nuclear war almost accidentally started
02:01:09 The end of the Cold War in the 1990s
02:03:08 Francis Fukuyama on the end of history
02:05:06 Is humanity doomed to constant conflicts?