Reinterpreting the end of the Cold War : issues, interpretations, periodizations / edited by Silvio Pons and Federico Romero.

Papers from conferences held in Rome in June, 2000, and June, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Cold War as an era of imperial rivalry / Charles S. Maier -- Power, politics, and the long duration of the Cold War / Mark Kramer -- On recule pour mieux sauter, or "What needs to be done" (to understand the 1970s) / Leopoldo Nuti -- The Cold War considered as a US project / Anders Stephanson -- Beginnings of the end : how the Cold War crumbled / Odd Arne Westad -- Karol Wojtyla and the end of the Cold War / Agostino Giovagnoli -- Economic information in the life and death of the Soviet command system / Mark Harrison -- Ideas and the end of the Cold War : rethinking intellectual and political change / Robert English -- Unwrapping an enigma : Soviet elites, Gorbachev, and the end of the Cold War / Vladislav Zubok -- 1989 : history is rewritten / Jonathan Haslam -- The collapse of East European communism and the repercussions within the Soviet Union / Mark Kramer -- The end of Soviet communism : a review / Francesco Benvenuti,Silvio Pons .