• This covers the very dramatic ten years from the death of Stalin to the downfall of Khrushchev in 1964.
  • Assesses the part of new players in explaining the key pattern of conciliation, confrontation and then renewed conciliation.
  • Explores the significance for east-west relations of, the Sino-Soviet split- Khrushchev and Mao personality clash.
  • Maps specified developments along the European Iron Curtain and in relation to nuclear weapons.
  • Highlights the flowering of some degree of liberalisation followed by the savage repression in Hungary, the withdrawal from Austria but the renewed confrontation in Berlin.
  • Recognise the same oscillating pattern repeated with regard to nuclear weapons with the nuclear confrontation over Cuba followed by the Test Ban Treaty.

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