Soviet Heat In The Cold War

Working for an accountancy firm in the North East of England, James Bonaldy's life was fairly boring as his everyday life trudged on. Then he met an English gentleman at a hotel lobby with a very sinister proposition. He was plunged into a world of lies, deceit and women. Torn between his sexual needs, the Russian secret service and the British Government, he was totally out of his depth. The Cold War became boiling hot as his deceits were unravelled by dangerous men and equally dangerous women who honey-trapped him into betrayal. On his own he was battling with two Intelligence agencies and his need for sexual gratification. He had no choice but to fight to the end. This book grabs you at the start and keeps you needing to know the outcome.

The personal recollections of a participant in the Cold War During the peak of the Cold War in Europe, a young Bulgarian graphic artist meets a British diplomatic secretary in Sofia, Bulgaria. From this accidental meeting develops a romantic relationship that draws the attention of the secret service on both sides: the British MI6 and the Bulgarian counter-intelligence under the direction of the KGB. It occurred in the period between spring 1955 and summer 1959.

By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States and the USSR acted out the world's rising tensions in its island nations. Meanwhile the leaders of these nations - the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raúl; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture - had ambitions of their own. Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, and then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been. Red Heatis an authoritative and eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.

The historiography of the Cold War has long been dominated by American motivations and concerns, with Southeast Asian perspectives largely confined to the Indochina wars and Indonesia under Sukarno. Southeast Asia’s Cold War corrects this situation by examining the international politics of the region from within rather than without. It provides an up-to-date, coherent narrative of the Cold War as it played out in Southeast Asia against a backdrop of superpower rivalry. When viewed through a Southeast Asian lens, the Cold War can be traced back to the interwar years and antagonisms between indigenous communists and their opponents, the colonial governments and their later successors. Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines join Vietnam and Indonesia as key regional players with their own agendas, as evidenced by the formation of SEATO and the Bandung conference. The threat of global Communism orchestrated from Moscow, which had such a powerful hold in the West, passed largely unnoticed in Southeast Asia, where ideology took a back seat to regime preservation. China and its evolving attitude toward the region proved far more compelling: the emergence of the communist government there in 1949 helped further the development of communist networks in the Southeast Asian region. Except in Vietnam, the Soviet Union’s role was peripheral: managing relationships with the United States and China was what preoccupied Southeast Asia’s leaders. The impact of the Sino-Soviet split is visible in the decade-long Cambodian conflict and the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. This succinct volume not only demonstrates the complexity of the region, but for the first time provides a narrative that places decolonization and nation-building alongside the usual geopolitical conflicts. It focuses on local actors and marshals a wide range of literature in support of its argument. Most importantly, it tells us how and why the Cold War in Southeast Asia evolved the way it did and offers a deeper understanding of the Southeast Asia we know today.

Goyal Brothers Prakashan

Strictly according to the latest syllabus prescribed by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Delhi and State Boards of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Haryana, H.P. etc. & Navodaya, Kasturba, Kendriya Vidyalayas etc. following CBSE curriculum based on NCERT guidelines. राजनीति विज्ञान (Poilitical Science) Paper I - Indian Constitution at Work 1. Constitution-Making, 2. Fundamental Rights and Duties, 3. System of Representational Democracy, 4. Executive in a Parliamentary System, 5. Union and State Legislatures, 6. Judiciary, 7. Federal System, 8. Local Self-Government, 9. Constitution as a Living Document, 10. Political Philosophy Underlying the Constitution Paper II - Political Theory 11. Political Theory, 12. Liberty, 13. Equality, 14. Social Justice, 15. Rights, 16. Citizenship, 17. Nationalism, 18. Secularism, 19. Peace, 20. Development Examination Papers (JAC)

PART ‘A’ : CONTEMPORARY WORLD POLITICS 1.The Cold War Era in World Politics, 2.Disintegration of the Second World and the Collapse of Bipolarity, 3.American Dominance in World Politics, 4. Alternative Centres of Economic and Political Power, 5 .South Asia in Post-Cold War Era, 6.International Organisations, 7. Security in the Contemporary World, 8. Environment and Natural Resources in Global Politics, 9 .Globalisation, High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Questions PART ‘B’ : POLITICS IN INDIA SINCE INDEPENDENCE 1.Nation-Building and its Problems, 2 .Era of One-Party Dominance, 3 .Politics of Planned Development, 4. India’s External Relations, 5. Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System, 6 .Crisis of the Constitutional Order, 7. Regional Aspirations and Conflicts, 8. Rise of New Social Movements, 9 .Democratic Upsurge and Coalition Politics,10.Recent Issues and Challenges, High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Questions Board Examination Papers.