The Cold War Reference Guide: A General History and Annotated Chronology, with Selected Biographies

During the mid‐1990s libraries witnessed a proliferation of reference works written by scholars and historians regarding the Cold War. These encyclopedias and reference sources often included biographies, chronologies, and short articles describing the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War Reference Guide was first published in 1997, along with a series of other comparable reference works – for example, Encyclopedia of the Cold War (Arms, 1994) and The Cold War Encyclopedia (Parrish, 1996). In the preface Schwartz acknowledges that he experienced the Cold War as a liberal and discloses that he...