Reviewing the Cold War

This volume takes stock of where new materials from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe have taken us in our understanding of what the Cold War was about and how we should study it.

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.

It is welcome reading for anyone who is steeped in new archival evidence" on Cold War crises ("the trees") and wants to stand back and look at the Cold War as a whole ("the forest").

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