Sexing up the Cold War: New Evidence on the MolotovTruman Talks of April 1945 Export

@article{citeulike:4810607, abstract = {This article presents and examines new evidence from the Russian archives on the Truman–Molotov talks of April 1945. This new evidence undercuts the conventional story that this was a rough and tough meeting that led to a significant deterioration of Soviet–American relations. The turn to Cold War came much later, and it was only in that context that the Molotov–Truman encounter came to be looked upon as a particularly negative event. That retrospective view fed into postwar memoirs and then into the historiography, thereby creating one of the mythical, emblematic events of the early Cold War.}, author = {Roberts, Geoffrey}, citeulike-article-id = {4810607}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1468274042000231178}, doi = {10.1080/1468274042000231178}, journal = {Cold War History}, keywords = {1945, cold, war}, number = {3}, pages = {105--125}, posted-at = {2009-06-11 11:44:40}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Sexing up the Cold War: New Evidence on the Molotov–Truman Talks of April 1945}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1468274042000231178}, volume = {4}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4810607 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4810607 N2 - This article presents and examines new evidence from the Russian archives on the Truman–Molotov talks of April 1945. This new evidence undercuts the conventional story that this was a rough and tough meeting that led to a significant deterioration of Soviet–American relations. The turn to Cold War came much later, and it was only in that context that the Molotov–Truman encounter came to be looked upon as a particularly negative event. That retrospective view fed into postwar memoirs and then into the historiography, thereby creating one of the mythical, emblematic events of the early Cold War. IS - 3 JF - Cold War History EP - 125 TI - Sexing up the Cold War: New Evidence on the Molotov–Truman Talks of April 1945 PB - Routledge VL - 4 SP - 105 KW - 1945 KW - cold KW - war AU - Roberts, Geoffrey PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1468274042000231178 ER -