本书是近年颇富新意和好评的冷战史著作。 作者大量利用了苏联解体后解密的机密录音，文件等新资料，尝试从苏联领导人的角度，审视，解读冷战的形成，激化，僵持和结局。作者发现，尽管国防安全和苏联的国家利益是斯大林及其后继者主要的政策目标，但苏联的冷战政策深受其意识形态及国内政治需要的左右。 不同于传统英文学界的主流观点，作者认为美国的在五十年代和八十年代采取的”遏制战略“加剧了苏联一方的好战性。而戈尔巴乔夫的错误判断和失误决策，则是导致苏联解体的主要原因。

Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth centu...(展开全部)

During the peak years of the Cold War, when the inscrutability of the Kremlin's agenda left many Western observers fearing imminent nuclear war, Americans could only speculate about what Soviet leaders might be thinking and planning. What were the Soviet's true intentions? Did they have a comprehensive strategy in their confrontation with the West? Was there a Communist bluepri...(展开全部)

Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin’s power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took pains to exclude. His research reveals that the Russian attitude toward citizenship...(展开全部)

沙希利·浦洛基（Serhii Plokhy）哈佛大学俄罗斯及乌克兰史教授，也是东欧诸国史顶尖的研究学者，专攻俄罗斯及乌克兰现代史。他的著述丰富且有创见，曾经连续三年（2002-2005）获得美国乌克兰研究协会颁发的最佳著作奖项。他更于2009年获得古斯拉夫研究协会颁发的卓越学人奖。著有《雅尔塔—决定世界格局和历史进程的八天》和《斯拉夫民族之起源》等书。

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the triumph of democratic values over communism, took cen...(展开全部)

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the triumph of democratic values over communism, took cen...(展开全部)

A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Lthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one of the defining events of the Cold War. Identifying the primary role of disputes ov...(展开全部)