TY - GEN AU - Hopf,Ted TI - Reconstructing the Cold War: the early years, 1945-1958 SN - 9780199379767 AV - 338 DK 268.5 H792r 2012 U1 - 327.4700904 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Guerra fría KW - Cambio social KW - Unión Soviética KW - Relaciones exteriores N1 - Stalinism after the war: a discourse of danger, 1945-53 -- Stalin's foreign policy: the discourse of danger abroad, 1945-53 -- The thaw at home, 1953-58 -- The thaw abroad, 1953-58 N2 - The early years of the Cold War were marked by contradictions and conflict. The turn from Stalin's discourse of danger to the discourse of difference under his successors explains the abrupt changes in relations with Eastern Europe, China, the decolonizing world, and the West. Societal constructivism provides the theoretical approach to make sense of this turbulent history ER -