Red Picket Fence: The East-West Blunder in Central Europe, 1945-1955

• In Event: Contentious Politics in the Cold War Era

Brief Overview

The Cold War pitted two visions of the post-war world against each other. The West favored containment, Stalin favored two alternative spheres separated by a neutral buffer zone. The fledgling Austrian state stood firmly in the middle, ignored.

Author

• Kurt Robert Keller, University of Missouri-St. Louis