- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- New to this Edition
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Maps
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction: Understanding the Cold War
- Part I The Origins and Development of the Cold War, 1945–53
- 1. Tensions in the Grand Alliance and Growing Confrontation, 1945–7
- 2. Two Worlds East and West, 1945–8
- 3. Empire, Cold War, and Decolonization, 1945–53
- 4. The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded, 1948–53
- Part II Cold War: Crises and Change, 1953–63
- 5. Soviet–American Relations: Avoiding Hot War and the Search for Stability
- 6. Maintaining the Spheres of Influence
- 7. Fighting the Cold War: The Offensive Strategies
- 8. Collapsing Empires: The Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds, 1953–63
- Part III The Cold War of Peaceful Coexistence and the Rise of Multipolarity, 1963–71
- 9. The Eastern and Western Blocs in the 1960s
- 10. The Vietnam War
- 11. Other Regional Conflicts
- Part IV The Détente Era, 1972–80
- 12. An Era of Negotiations, 1972–3
- 13. ‘Stagflation’ and the Trials of Détente, 1973–6
- 14. Détente in Decline, 1977–9
- 15. The Return to Confrontation, 1979–80
- Part V From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981–9
- 16. The ‘Second’ Cold War, 1981–5
- 17. Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s
- 18. Instability in Latin America
- 19. The Decline of the Cold War, 1985–9
- Part VI The Post-Cold War World, 1990–2000
- 20. Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- 21. US Predominance and the Search for a Post-Cold War Order
- 22. Stability and Instability in the Less Developed World
- Part VII The Age of Terror, 2001–12
- 23. The ‘War on Terror’ and the War in Afghanistan
- 24. The Iraq War and the Middle East
- 25. The Shifting Global Balance
- Bibliography
- Index
(p. 133) 6. Maintaining the Spheres of Influence
- Chapter:
- (p. 133) 6. Maintaining the Spheres of Influence
- Author(s):
John W. Young
and John Kent
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780199693061.003.0008
This chapter examines how the United States and the Soviet Union tried to main their respective spheres of influence during the Cold War, especially in three regions: Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Latin America. The death of Joseph Stalin and the assumption of power by the triumvirate of Lavrenti Beria, Nikita Khrushchev, and Georgi Malenkov resulted in a fresh approach to domestic issues and to the nature of Soviet control over its European satellites. The apparent change produced a new Soviet approach to East–West relations. The chapter first considers how the new Soviet leadership addressed the crisis in East Germany before analysing American influence in Western Europe and US relations with Latin America. The discussion covers themes and events such as the Soviet policy on Hungary and Poland, the Messina Conference and the Spaak Committee, nuclear cooperation and multilateral force, and the US response to the Cuban Revolution.
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- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- New to this Edition
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Maps
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction: Understanding the Cold War
- Part I The Origins and Development of the Cold War, 1945–53
- 1. Tensions in the Grand Alliance and Growing Confrontation, 1945–7
- 2. Two Worlds East and West, 1945–8
- 3. Empire, Cold War, and Decolonization, 1945–53
- 4. The Cold War Intensifies: Containment Superseded, 1948–53
- Part II Cold War: Crises and Change, 1953–63
- 5. Soviet–American Relations: Avoiding Hot War and the Search for Stability
- 6. Maintaining the Spheres of Influence
- 7. Fighting the Cold War: The Offensive Strategies
- 8. Collapsing Empires: The Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds, 1953–63
- Part III The Cold War of Peaceful Coexistence and the Rise of Multipolarity, 1963–71
- 9. The Eastern and Western Blocs in the 1960s
- 10. The Vietnam War
- 11. Other Regional Conflicts
- Part IV The Détente Era, 1972–80
- 12. An Era of Negotiations, 1972–3
- 13. ‘Stagflation’ and the Trials of Détente, 1973–6
- 14. Détente in Decline, 1977–9
- 15. The Return to Confrontation, 1979–80
- Part V From Confrontation to Communist Collapse, 1981–9
- 16. The ‘Second’ Cold War, 1981–5
- 17. Middle East Conflicts in the 1980s
- 18. Instability in Latin America
- 19. The Decline of the Cold War, 1985–9
- Part VI The Post-Cold War World, 1990–2000
- 20. Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- 21. US Predominance and the Search for a Post-Cold War Order
- 22. Stability and Instability in the Less Developed World
- Part VII The Age of Terror, 2001–12
- 23. The ‘War on Terror’ and the War in Afghanistan
- 24. The Iraq War and the Middle East
- 25. The Shifting Global Balance
- Bibliography
- Index
