1850. – 1918.
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1945-1962.
A. A. Zhdanov's report from the founding meeting of the Informbiro (Poland, September 1947) on the division of the world into two camps – imperialist (USA) and anti-imperialist (USSR). A key document of the beginning of the Cold War.
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The book explains how, after 1945, the world was divided into two opposing blocs: the Western (led by the USA) and the Eastern (led by the Soviet Union).
Michael A. Cook, Princeton professor of Islamic history, provides an overview of human history from the Neolithic to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001 in this witty and intelligent synthesis, asking the key question: why did everything happen exactly th