President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Communism

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Manchester University Press, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 192 pages
This book fills a major gap in the history of the Cold War by examining in detail a neglected phase of US-Soviet relations. Based on original and recently released archive materials, the book constitutes a major contribution to the growing 'beyond Vietnam' literature on the foreign policy of President Lyndon B. Johnson
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Lyndon Johnson and Soviet communism
5
USSoviet relations 196369
32
Nuclear weapons
60
The Vietnam War 196366 91
66
The Vietnam War 196669
114
Cuba
134
the Six Day War and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
154
Conclusion
179
Bibliographical note
187
Index
188
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John Dumbrell is Professor of Politics at the University of Leicester