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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.
Contents
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.
