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Who started it?

Jonathan Steele: Who started the Cold War?, 25 January 2018

The Cold War: A World History 
by Odd ArneWestad.
Allen Lane, 710 pp., £30, August 2017, 978 0 241 01131 7
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... analysis of the Cold War that explains Moscow’s thinking as fairly as the West’s. But Odd ArneWestad has impressive credentials. He was a founding editor of the journal Cold War History, which has an unrivalled record of publishing essays based on material in the Soviet and US government archives. He ...

Not Corrupt Enough

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Whose Cold War?, 20 March 2025

To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power 
by Sergey Radchenko.
Cambridge, 760 pp., £30, May 2024, 978 1 108 47735 2
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The World of the Cold War 1945-91 
by Vladislav Zubok.
Pelican, 521 pp., £25, May, 978 0 241 69614 9
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... island of Sakhalin in the Pacific), wrote a PhD on Sino-Soviet relations under the supervision of Odd ArneWestad at the LSE, then returned to the US as a professor at Johns Hopkins in 2021. Of the two, Zubok, always sensible, has the better feel for political and foreign policy debates in the US, as well as ...

US/USSR

Anatol Lieven: Remembering the Cold War, 16 November 2006

The Cold War 
by John Lewis Gaddis.
Allen Lane, 333 pp., £20, January 2006, 0 7139 9912 8
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The Global Cold War 
by Odd ArneWestad.
Cambridge, 484 pp., £25, January 2006, 0 521 85364 8
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... vastly better account of the Cold War – which will doubtless attract vastly fewer readers – is Odd ArneWestad’s study of the struggle as it affected the Third World, The Global Cold War. In sharp contrast to Gaddis, Westad’s work combines sophisticated analysis, insight into ...

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