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Synopsis

At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed. Within months the Cold War had become very hot: Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall and a year later he sent missiles to Cuba to threaten the United States directly. Despite the fact that the Vienna Summit yielded barely any tangible results, it did lead to some very important developments. The superpowers came to see for the first time that there was only one way to escape from the atomic hell of their respective arsenals: dialogue. The "peace through fear" and the "hotline" between Washington and Moscow prevented an atomic confrontation. Austria successfully demonstrated its new role as neutral state and host when Vienna became a meeting place in the Cold War. In The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History international experts use new Russian and Western sources to analyze what really happened during this critical time and why the parties had a close shave with catastrophe.

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À propos des auteurs

Günter Bischof is Marshall Plan Professor of History and Director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans.

Stefan Karner is professor of modern history at University of Graz

Barbara Stelzl-Marx is director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War, Graz - Vienna - Raabs; professor of contemporary history at the University of Graz; and vice-president of the Austrian UNESCO-Commission.

Richard D. Williamson is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from Louisiana State University.

Peter Ruggenthaler is the deputy director and a senior research fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War, in Graz, Austria.

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