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)

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)

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)

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.” In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as “a major achievement by one of the leading public int...(展开全部)