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Title: Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev by Vladislav Zubok, Constantine V. Pleshakov ISBN: 0-674-45532-0 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Look into the Kremlin
Comment: I found this book an interesting look at the key men who ran Soviet foreign policy between 1945-1964.
The book is arranged into biographical sketches about Stalin, Molotov, Malenkov, etc., and each chapter focuses on the foreign policy issue they were most involved with. I found this a little dissatisfying, since it was not strictly chronological, but I assume most readers would have a basic handle on Cold War chronology.
The chapters on Stalin, Molotov and Khushchev were the most interesting. I think this book would be most useful to college undergrads in Russian history or 20th Century diplomacy.
Rating: 2
Summary: Futile Justification
Comment: It is very interesting to learn how Russian historians view Cold War. It is well-written and easy to understand.
It seems to me, however, that the authors have some nostalgia for 19th century Russian imperialism. While ideology is described as delirium tremens, there is no criticism of Russian expansionism. Even Stalin's expansionism is justified by his concern for security. By denying Soviet Union's ambition and emphasizing economic loss which Russian people had to suffer, the authors are misleading readers to wrong direction.
Rating: 4
Summary: A useful insight
Comment: Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Kruschev, opens a new dimension to those who are intrested in reading what had really happened during the Cold War. The sections about the atomic bomb preperations and effort of Stalin and three consequent letters of Khruschev to Kennedy during the Cuban Missile crisis -from which we understand caused a strategic policy change by the CPSU- are valuable pieces of information. A useful insight which could bu read as a thriller.
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Title: We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis ISBN: 0198780710 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964 by Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy J. Naftali ISBN: 0393317900 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen, Chen Jian ISBN: 0807849324 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Empire : Forty Years That Shook The World, From Stalin to Yeltsin by Fred Coleman ISBN: 0312168160 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman ISBN: 0393051447 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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