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. In The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in…mehr
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. 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.
Günter Bischof is a university research professor and director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. Stefan Karner is head of the Department of Economic, Social, and Business History at the University of Graz and director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research of War Consequences, Graz-Vienna. Barbara Stelzl-Marx is deputy director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research of War Consequences and lecturer at the University of Graz.
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Part I: Introduction and Historical Context Chapter 1: Introduction: The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History Günter Bischof Stefan Karner Barbara Stelzl-Marx Chapter 2: Summitry in the Twentieth Century: An Overview David Reynolds Part II: Contextualizing the Vienna Summit United States France and Great Britain Chapter 3: "The First Test of [. . .] Détente Will Be the Berlin Negotiation": Berlin Disarmament and the 1960 Paris Summit Richard D. Williamson Chapter 4: "Vienna a City that is Symbolic of the Possibility of Finding Equitable Solutions": John F. Kennedy and His European Summitry in Early June 1961 Günter Bischof and Martin Kofler Chapter 5: Great Britain and the Vienna Summit of June 1961 Anne Deighton Chapter 6: Paris as Beneficiary of the Unsuccessful Vienna Summit Georges-Henri Soutou Soviet Union Chapter 7: Soviet-American Relations in the Early 1960s Vladimir Pechatnov Chapter 8: Between Pragmatism and Ideology: The U.S. -Soviet Negotiating Process in the Khrushchev Era Ol'ga Pavlenko Asia and Africa Chapter 9: Casting a Long Shadow over Vienna: The Chinese Factor in the Vienna Summit Michail Prozumenshchikov Chapter 10: Laos and the Vienna Summit Lawrence Freedman Part III: The Summit Chapter 11: Two Days of Drama: Preparation and Execution of the Vienna Summit Barbara Stelzl-Marx Chapter 12: A Difficult Education: John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in Vienna Timothy Naftali Chapter 13: "Summit Ladies": Gender Arrangements Media Staging and Symbolic Scenes of the 1961Vienna Summit Talks Ingrid Bauer Chapter 14: Moral Masculinity: Gender Power and the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship Jennifer Lynn Walton Chapter 15: On the Significance of Austrian Neutrality for Soviet Foreign Policy under Nikita S. Khrushchev Peter Ruggenthaler Chapter 16: The Personal Recollections of a Presidential Adviser in Vienna Ted Sorensen Chapter 17: The Personal Recollections of Khrushchev's Interpreter in Vienna Viktor Sukhodrev Part IV: The Berlin Crisis Chapter 18: Khrushchev the Berlin Wall and the Demand for a Peace Treaty 1961-1963 Gerhard Wettig Chapter 19: The Vienna Summit and the Construction of the Berlin Wall Manfred Wilke Appendices Appendix 1: Soviet Kennedy Profile Appendix 2: CIA Profile of Krushchev in Kennedy's Briefing Papers Appendix 4:Krushchev's Presidium Statement before the Vienna Trip Appendix 3-1:Memorandum of Conversation Vienna 3 June 1961 12:45 p.m. Appendix 3-2:Memorandum of Conversation Vienna 3 June 1961 3 p.m. Appendix 3-3:Memorandum of Conversation Vienna 4 June 1961 10:15 a.m.
Part I: Introduction and Historical Context Chapter 1: Introduction: The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History Günter Bischof Stefan Karner Barbara Stelzl-Marx Chapter 2: Summitry in the Twentieth Century: An Overview David Reynolds Part II: Contextualizing the Vienna Summit United States France and Great Britain Chapter 3: "The First Test of [. . .] Détente Will Be the Berlin Negotiation": Berlin Disarmament and the 1960 Paris Summit Richard D. Williamson Chapter 4: "Vienna a City that is Symbolic of the Possibility of Finding Equitable Solutions": John F. Kennedy and His European Summitry in Early June 1961 Günter Bischof and Martin Kofler Chapter 5: Great Britain and the Vienna Summit of June 1961 Anne Deighton Chapter 6: Paris as Beneficiary of the Unsuccessful Vienna Summit Georges-Henri Soutou Soviet Union Chapter 7: Soviet-American Relations in the Early 1960s Vladimir Pechatnov Chapter 8: Between Pragmatism and Ideology: The U.S. -Soviet Negotiating Process in the Khrushchev Era Ol'ga Pavlenko Asia and Africa Chapter 9: Casting a Long Shadow over Vienna: The Chinese Factor in the Vienna Summit Michail Prozumenshchikov Chapter 10: Laos and the Vienna Summit Lawrence Freedman Part III: The Summit Chapter 11: Two Days of Drama: Preparation and Execution of the Vienna Summit Barbara Stelzl-Marx Chapter 12: A Difficult Education: John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in Vienna Timothy Naftali Chapter 13: "Summit Ladies": Gender Arrangements Media Staging and Symbolic Scenes of the 1961Vienna Summit Talks Ingrid Bauer Chapter 14: Moral Masculinity: Gender Power and the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship Jennifer Lynn Walton Chapter 15: On the Significance of Austrian Neutrality for Soviet Foreign Policy under Nikita S. Khrushchev Peter Ruggenthaler Chapter 16: The Personal Recollections of a Presidential Adviser in Vienna Ted Sorensen Chapter 17: The Personal Recollections of Khrushchev's Interpreter in Vienna Viktor Sukhodrev Part IV: The Berlin Crisis Chapter 18: Khrushchev the Berlin Wall and the Demand for a Peace Treaty 1961-1963 Gerhard Wettig Chapter 19: The Vienna Summit and the Construction of the Berlin Wall Manfred Wilke Appendices Appendix 1: Soviet Kennedy Profile Appendix 2: CIA Profile of Krushchev in Kennedy's Briefing Papers Appendix 4:Krushchev's Presidium Statement before the Vienna Trip Appendix 3-1:Memorandum of Conversation Vienna 3 June 1961 12:45 p.m. Appendix 3-2:Memorandum of Conversation Vienna 3 June 1961 3 p.m. Appendix 3-3:Memorandum of Conversation Vienna 4 June 1961 10:15 a.m.
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