Preface ; Introduction: The Rewards and Challenges of Reading Primary Sources ; Chapter 1. The Cold War: Toward Soviet-American Confrontation ; The United States as the champion of liberty ; 1.1. Woodrow Wilson, address to the Senate, 1917 ; 1.2. Henry R. Luce, on The American Century, 1941 ; Soviet Communism on the March ; 1.3. Joseph Stalin on The Foundations of Leninism, 1924 ; 1.4. Teresa Tora?ska, interview with Jakub Berman on Communism's appeal ; The Cold War Takes Shape ; 1.5. American and Soviet Leaders move from war to peace, 1943-1946 ; a. Roosevelt, 21 September 1943 b. Stalin, 6 November 1944 ; c. Yalta conference, 6 February 1945 d. Truman, 20 April 1945 ; e. Truman, 23 April 1945 f. Truman, 25 July 1945 ; g. Stalin, probably late July 1945 h. Stalin, 9 February 1946 ; 1.6. Two diplomats assess the international situation, 1946 ; a. Kennan long telegram b. Novikov, report to Molotov ; 1.7. Harry Truman, address to Congress, March 1947 ; 1.8. Andrei Zhdanov, Cominform speech, September 1947 ; 1.9. Responses to the enemy threat ; a. NSC 68, 1950 b. Stalin, 1952 ; The Cold War at Home ; 1.10 Popular antipathy takes hold, 1947-1948 ; a. U.S. cartoon image of Stalin b. Soviet cartoon on U.S. policy ; 1.11. Soviet society feels the chill ; a. Zhdanov, 1946 b. Stonov, Seven Slashes ; 1.12. The Red Menace in the United States ; a. Hoover, 1947 b. Investigation of a postal worker, 1954 ; Chapter 2. The International Economy: Reform and Revival ; The Japanese Cope with the Devastation of War ; 2.1. Hiroshima residents remember death and destruction ; a. Mr. Katsutani b. Wakasa Ikuko c. Ry?so Fujie ; 2.2. Japanese letters to General MacArthur, voices from the ruins, 1945-1947 ; Europe: Here Come the Americans! ; 2.3. Reinhold Wagnleitner recalls his youthful infatuation with things American ; 2.4. Bertrand Russell, a British intellectual looks across the Atlantic, 1951 ; The State and the Free Market ; 2.5. On the virtues of state involvement in the economy ; a. Keynes, 1932 b. Beveridge report, 1942 c. Sturzo, 1945 ; 2.6. Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1945 ; 2.7. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1944 ; Reconstructing the Japanese and European Economies ; 2.8. Japanese Foreign Ministry blueprint for postwar recovery, 1946 ; 2.9. George C. Marshall on a strategy for European recovery, 1947 ; Chapter 3. The Third World: First Tremors in Asia ; China's Triumphant Revolution ; 3.1. Mao Zedong recounts his path to socialism, 1938 ; 3.2. Mao on the founding of the People's Republic of China, 1949 ; 3.3. Peasant perspectives on poverty and village politics ; Vietnam and the Path to National Liberation ; 3.4. Ho Chi Minh on communist anti-colonialism ; 3.5. Ho declaring Vietnamese independence, 1945 ; 3.6. Vietnamese peasants reflect on the Communist appeal ; a. Nguyen Thi Dinh b. Tuan Doanh c. Pham Van Ha ; India on the Eve of Independence ; 3.7. Jawaharlal Nehru on the origins of his social and political outlook, 1941 ; 3.8. Gandhi and Nehru on development strategy, 1945 ; a. Gandhi to Nehru b. Nehru's reply ; 3.9. Nehru reacting to communal violence, 1946 ; 3.10. Rural life: land and gender ; a. Markandaya, Nectar in a Sieve b. Women's verses ; Chapter 4. The Cold War: A Tenuous Accommodation ; Reforming the Soviet System ; 4.1. Nikita Khrushchev recalls life with the elderly Stalin, 1970 ; 4.2. Khrushchev on Stalin's crimes, February 1956 ; 4.3. Milovan Djilas, indictment of the new class, 1956 ; Spreading Nuclear Fear ; 4.4. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein on the nuclear threat, 9 July 1955 ; 4.5. The U.S. government perspective ; a. Facts about Fallout, 1955 b. Eisenhower diary, 1956 ; 4.6. The Soviet perspective ; a. Kurchatov, 1954 b. Khrushchev, 1956 ; Lyndon Johnson Goes to War in Vietnam, 1965 ; 4.7. Johnson on the U.S. commitment to South Vietnam, 7 April ; 4.8. The debate within the Johnson administration ; a. Johnson, 21 June b. Ball, 1 July c. McNamara, 20 July ; 4.9. Johnson on a major commitment in Vietnam, 28 July ; 4.10. Philip Caputo, recollections of a Marine's Vietnam War ; Youth Erupts, 1968 ; 4.11. Stirrings in the United States ; a. Port Huron Statement, 1962 b. Carmichael speech, 1966 ; 4.12. Paris in upheaval ; a. How to Train Stuffed Geese b. Graffiti ; 4.13. Massacre in Mexico City ; Chapter 5. Abundance and Discontent in the Developed World ; The Flowering of Consumer Society ; 5.1. The United States leads the way ; a. Advertisement, circa 1930 b. Saturday Evening Post, 1959 ; 5.2. Changing life in rural France, 1957, 1964, 1974 ; 5.3. Growing up in 1950s Britain: From scarcity to affluence ; 5.4. Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, the Kitchen Debate, 1959 ; Economic Culture and the Good Society ; 5.5. Robert Schuman, declaration on European cooperation, 1950 ; 5.6. Pope John XXIII, Mater et Magistra, 1961 ; 5.7. Morita Akio, on the collectivist principles guiding Sony, 1986 ; The Rise of an Environmental Movement ; 5.8. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 ; 5.9. Donella H. Meadows et al. The Limits to Growth, 1972 ; 5.10. Indira Gandhi offering a third-world perspective, 1972 ; Feminism in the North Atlantic World ; 5.11. Simone de Beauvoir on The Second Sex, 1949 ; 5.12. NOW statement on rights for American women, 1966 ; 5.13. The awakening of the French feminist movement ; a. Anne Tristan, 1970 b. Le Torchon Brule, 1972 ; Chapter 6. Third-World Hopes at High Tide ; Egypt under Nasser ; 6.1. Gamal Abdul Nasser, The Philosophy of the Revolution, 1952 ; 6.2. Nasser The National Charter, 1962 ; 6.3. Sayyid Qutb on an alternative model based on Islam, 1964 ; 6.4 Amina Said, on women and the revolution, 1973 ; Nkrumah's Vision for Ghana and Africa ; 6.5. Kwame Nkrumah on colonialism and independence, 1942-1945 ; 6.6. Nkrumah on unity for Africa, 1963 ; 6.7. Nkrumah on socialism for Ghana, 1964 ; 6.8. Nkrumah writing in exile on hopes for a global black-power movement, 1968 ; 6.9. Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, 1969 ; Castro's Drive to Create a New Cuba ; 6.10. Fidel Castro, history will absolve me, 1953 ; 6.11. Castro, declaration of Havana, 1962 ; 6.12. Gabriel Capote Pacheco, a popular perspective, 1969-1970 ; Sweeping Visions and Bold Strategies ; 6.13. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1961 ; 6.14. The Maoist revolutionary appeal ; a. Lin Biao on people's war, 1965 b. Cultural Revolution poster ; 6.15. Che Guevara on the insurrectionary impulse, 1967 ; Chapter 7. The Cold War Comes to a Close ; The Struggle over Detente ; 7.1. Willy Brandt on bridging the two Germanys, 1969 ; 7.2. President Richard Nixon, making the case for a policy of detente, 1971 ; 7.3. Ronald Reagan, dubbing the Soviet Union the focus of evil, 1983 ; 7.4. Mikhail Gorbachev, reassessing Soviet foreign policy, 1986 ; Gorbachev's Reforms ; 7.5. Gorbachev recalling the personal origins of his reform impulse ; 7.6. Gorbachev on glasnost and perestroika, 1987 ; 7.7. Elite supporters reflect on the Gorbachev reform program ; a. Zaslavskaya b. Burlatsky ; 7.8. KGB report on the deteriorating political situation, 1991 ; The Revolutions of '89 in Europe ; 7.9. Critique of the Polish Communist Party, 1978 ; 7.10. Vaclav Havel, Power of the Powerless, 1979 ; 7.11. East German Workers on socialism and national reunification, 1990 ; Chapter 8. Global Markets: One System, Three Centers ; Championing Free Market Orthodoxy ; 8.1. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1962 ; 8.2. Margaret Thatcher, promising free market prosperity for Britain, 1977 ; 8.3. Worker anxiety in Reagan's free market America, mid-1980s ; 8.4. Bill Clinton, on NAFTA and international free trade, 1993 ; 8.5. A critical Mexican perspective on NAFTA, 1992 ; From the EC to the EU: Tightening European Bonds ; 8.6. Margaret Thatcher, principles for European integration, 1988 ; 8.7. Jacques Delors, offering his vision for European integration, 1989 ; 8.8. Francois Mitterand. the prospects for an integrated Europe, 1995 ; China's Authoritarian Capitalism ; 8.9. Students criticize the Communist regime and its market reforms, 1989 ; 8.10. Deng, remarks to military commanders, 1989 ; 8.11. Rural support for market reforms and political stability, 1989 ; Chapter 9. Divergent Paths in the Third World ; The Iranian Revolution ; 9.1. Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi on the problems of his regime, 1970-1977 ; 9.2. Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic challenge, 1963-1980 ; 9.3 Poster depicting Khomeini triumphant ; 9.4. The villagers of Deh Koh and the Islamic revolution, 1978-1980 ; Guatemala's Brutal Civil War ; 9.5. Mayan women on poverty and cultural autonomy ; 9.6. Ladina elites on their privileged world ; 9.7. Interview with a government torturer ; Israelis and Palestinians in a fatal embrace ; 9.8. Statement of Arab views, 1946 ; 9.9. Israel's declaration of independence, 1948 ; 9.10. The Palestinian Liberation Organization, National Charter, 1968 ; 9.11. The Likud Party on occupied land, 1977 ; 9.12. Hamas promoting the first intifada, 1988 ; Bringing down apartheid in South Africa ; 9.13 Hendrik F. Verwoerd, on the essentials of apartheid, 1948 ; 9.14 Nelson Mandela, Rivonia trial statement, 19649.15 Mark Mathabane on his education in violence, 1976 ; 9.16 Breaking the deadlock over apartheid, 1990 ; a. de Klerk b. Mandela ; Chapter 10. In the Grip of Globalization: The 1990s and Beyond ; The Backlash against Globalization ; 10.1 Global inequalities ; a. Three families, 1993-1994 b. Data on long-term trends ; 10.2. The Siena Declaration on fundamental structural flaws, 1998 ; 10.3. Multinational corporations ride roughshod ; a. Schlosser on McDonald's b. Bove c. Saro-Wiwa ; 10.4. Dueling over globalization: irresistible jugernaut or dangerous dogma, 1999 ; a. Friedman b. Ramonet Confronting climate change ; 10.5. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ; a. 1990 report b. 2007 report c. 2013 preliminary report ; 10.6. India's National Action Plan on Climate Change, 200810.7. International attitudes toward global warming, 2009 Human Rights Spoken Here-and Everywhere ; 10.8. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 ; 10.9. Debating women's rights, 1995 ; a. Fourth World Conference on Women b. Vatican Press Office ; 10.10. Regional resistance ; a. Cairo Declaration, 1990 b. Singapore's position, 1993 ; 10.11. Human rights and the environment, 1994 ; Chapter 11. Regional Diversity in a New Century ; An Exceptional American Conceit ; 11.1. Presidential pronouncements on national identity and mission. ; a. George H. W. Bush, 1991 b. Clinton, 1995 ; c. George W. Bush, 2002 d. Obama, 2009 e. Obama, 2010 ; 11.2. Opinion world wide on the United States, 2012 ; The Middle East in Conflict ; 11.3. Osama bin Laden, A Declaration of Jihad, 1996 ; 11.4. Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Turkey's role, 2004 ; 11.5. Voices from Tahrir Square, 2011 ; 11.6. Bashar al-Assad, defending the Syrian regime, 2013 ; 11.7. Hasan Rouhani, an Iranian perspective, 2013 ; The BRIC Bloc ; 11.8. An establishment intellectual on China's rise, 2012 11.9. Vladimir Putin on Russia's revival, 201211.10. Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, a Brazilian view, 2009 ; 11.11. An India establishment study, 2012 Europe Loses Its Way ; 11.12. Young people on dim prospects in an age of austerity, 201311.13. Making the popular case against immigration ; a. British National Party brochure b. France's National Front poster ; c. Germany's National Democratic Party poster ; d. Italy's Northern League poster ; 11.14. Collective views on life in hard times, 2013