Overview
"The phrase ""Cold War"" was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: ""We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."" The Soviet Union, he wrote, was ""at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors."" But as a leading historian of Soviet foreign policy, Jonathan Haslam, makes clear in this groundbreaking book, the epoch was anything but stable, with constant wars, near-wars, and political upheavals on both sides. Whereas the Western perspective on the Cold War has been well documented by journalists and historians, the Soviet side has remained for the most part shrouded in secrecy-until now. Drawing on a vast range of recently released archives in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and Eastern Europe, Russia's Cold War offers a thorough and fascinating analysis of East-West relations from 1917 to 1989. Far more than merely a straightforward history of the Cold War, this book presents the first account of politics and decision making at the highest levels of Soviet power: how Soviet leaders saw political and military events, what they were trying to accomplish, their miscalculations, and the ways they took advantage of Western ignorance. Russia's Cold War fills a significant gap in our understanding of the most important geopolitical rivalry of the twentieth century."
Full Product Details
Author: Jonathan Haslam
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.908kg
ISBN: 9780300159974
ISBN 10: 0300159978
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 25 January 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Central Eastern Europe category. --Choice Outstanding Academic Title Choice (03/12/2012)
Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Central Eastern Europe category. --Choice Magazine Choice Outstanding Academic Title (03/12/2012)
[C]omprehensive and erudite . . . Haslam has written an excellent book, one that assumes an important place in the historiography of the Cold War. --Norman M./i>--Norman M. Naimark The Russian Review
Author Information
Jonathan Haslam is professor of the history of international relations at the University of Cambridge, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a fellow of the British Academy.
