Natural enemies : the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, 1917-1991 / Robert C. Grogin.

Background to the conflict -- The United States, the Soviet Union, and world revolution -- Prelude to war -- The Big Three and the Grand Alliance -- TheYalta legacy -- Potsdam and the division of Europe -- Confronting the Soviet Union: the crisis of 1946 -- The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan -- Constructing the Soviet bloc, 1945-1953 -- The Berlin blockade and the formation of NATO-- The perils of containment: the Korean War -- Eisenhower and Dulles: from massive retaliation to covert action -- The Suez crisis -- The death of Stalin and the revolutions of 1956 -- Khrushchev and the Berlin problem, 1958-1963 -- The Cuban missile crisis -- The Congo crisis -- The Vietnam War -- The road to detente -- The erosion of containment and the end of detente -- The crisis of communism -- The struggle to reform the Soviet Union -- The collapse of the Sovet Union and the end of the Cold War.