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Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

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The first history of the Cold War focusing on the Soviet dimension, based on previously inaccessible archives

The phrase “Cold War” was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: “We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.” The Soviet Union, he wrote, was “at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of ‘cold war’ with its neighbors.” But as a leading historian of So...