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1946 : the making of the modern world / Victor Sebestyen.

by Sebestyen, Victor, 1956-

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New York : Pantheon Books, c2014.

World politics -- 1945-1955.

Nineteen forty-six, A.D.

9781101870426 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

xxiii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

First American edition.

"I'm tired of babying the Soviets" -- The American century -- The Russians : "a tsarist people" -- Stunde Null : Zero Hour -- Austria forgets its past -- The spy comes in from the cold -- Austerity Britain -- A performance at the Bolshoi -- The declaration of Cold War -- The abdication crisis -- Rape and pillage -- "Woe, woe to the Germans" -- "Anywhere but home" -- "This Chinese cesspit" -- Iron Curtain -- The fog of war -- Sunset on the Raj -- Refugees -- Trials and errors -- A Greek tragedy -- She'erit Ha-Pleta : the surviving remnant -- "A Jewish-Bolshevik plot" : blood libels -- The war against terror -- "Listen world. This is crossroads" -- The glory of France : "resistance in the heart" -- Stalin's Turkish bluff -- The bloodbath in Calcutta -- "Half-nun, half-whore" -- The return of the king -- "Sand down a rat hole" -- The general orders : democracy -- The big freeze.

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