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)

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)

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irre...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 迈克尔·多布斯(Michael Dobbs)，生于北爱尔兰首府贝尔法斯特，毕业于约克大学，曾获普林斯顿大学和哈佛大学的研究资助。他职业生涯的大部分时间是在《华盛顿邮报》当记者。他的前作《午夜将至》和《打倒老大哥：苏联的解体》，曾入围美国笔会(PEN)非小说类奖项的决赛。 【译者简介】 董旻杰（网名本垒打），资深战争史研究者，曾任“知兵堂”执行总编，著有国内研究阿登战役的代表作品《沸腾的雪：阿登反击战》。审校的代表作品有科尼利厄斯·瑞恩所著的《二战史诗三部曲》、海因茨·古德里安所著的《闪击战：古德里安回忆录》等。 王小伟 同济大学管理科学与工程硕士，从事房地产行业监察审计工作，长期研究二战史及冷战史。

From the author of the best-selling One Minute to Midnight , a riveting account of the pivotal six-month period spanning the end of World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the beginning of the Cold War. When Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill met in Yalta in February 1945, Hitler’s armies were on the run and victory was imminent. The Big Three wanted to draft a blueprin...(展开全部)