v. 1. Origins -- The Cold War and the international history of the twentieth century / Odd Arne Westad -- Ideology and the origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962 / David C. Engerman -- The world economy and the Cold War in the middle of the twentieth century / Charles S. Maier -- The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945-1952 / Melvyn P. Leffler -- The Soviet Union and the world, 1944-1953 / Vladimir O. Pechatnov -- Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1955 / Anne Deighton -- The division of Germany, 1945-1949 / Hans-Peter Schwarz -- The Marshall Plan and the creation of the West / William I. Hitchcock -- The Sovietization of Eastern Europe, 1944-1953 / Norman Naimark -- The Cold War in the Balkans, 1945-1956 / Svetozar Rajak -- The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to the Korean War / Niu Jun -- Japan, the United States, and the Cold War, 1945-1960 / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu -- The Korean War / William Stueck -- US national security policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy / Robert J. McMahon -- Soviet foreign policy, 1953-1962 / Vojtech Mastny -- East Central Europe, 1953-1956 / Csaba Békés -- The Sino-Soviet alliance and the Cold War in Asia, 1954-1962 / Shu Guang Zhang -- Nuclear weapons and the escalation of the Cold War, 1945-1962 / David Holloway -- Culture and the Cold War in Europe / Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht -- Cold War mobilization and the domestic politics : the United States / Laura McEnaney -- Cold War mobilisation and domestic politics : the Soviet Union / David Priestland -- Decolonization, the global South, and the Cold War, 1919-1962 / Mark Philip Bradley -- Oil, resources, and the Cold War, 1945-1962 / David S. Painter --