We Now Know
Rethinking Cold War History

Menjünk a biztosra, idézzünk két mondatot a wikipédiáról: „A hidegháború sok nemzetközi feszültséggel járó korszak volt 1947 és 1989 között, amelyet a két szuperhatalom, az Amerikai Egyesült Államok és a Szovjetunió közötti folytonos rivalizálás jellemzett. A szó szoros értelmében vett háború nem tö......more

I read this book for a history class on the Cold War, and I found Gaddis' analysis quite often one-sided. His United States is always right and wins all interpretation of the Cold War became very tiring, when we are constantly faced with evidence to the contrary.......more

First published in 1997, We Now Know is widely accepted as the first serious post-Cold War treatment of the topic. As such it faces the daunting task of placing the global conflict into a historical context as a discrete event. Gaddis argues that decades of scholarship on the Cold War produced betw......more

Objective and balanced account of a conflict between quite different empires, unfortunately elliptical in a few respects. Interesting points: (1) inconsistencies in policy, strategy and control on both sides; (2) the issue of contradictions: how one survives by balancing them rather than resolving t......more

John Lewis Gaddis’s “We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History” stands as a landmark in Cold War scholarship, offering a fresh, post-Cold War perspective that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of this pivotal era. Written in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of......more