The Great Fear

This book explores a full history of United States relations with both the Soviet Union and Russia, beginning with U.S. efforts to invade Russia during the Woodrow Wilson years. That relationship has been presented, from the American side, in terms of a perpetual Soviet/Russian threat, from the Leninist period through Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, and, more recently, the tenure of Vladimir Putin. The argument here is that the Soviet Union and Russia have never posed a serious thr...