Cold War Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Russia and the Cult of State Security

   The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

   By Julie Fedor

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The End of the Cold War and The Third World

   New Perspectives on Regional Conflict

   Edited by Artemy Kalinovsky, Sergey Radchenko

   Series: Cold War History

   This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution. Most of the recent scholarship on the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Intelligence in the Cold War: What Difference did it Make?

   Edited by Michael Herman, Gwilym Hughes

   Intelligence was a major part of the Cold War, waged by both sides with an almost warlike intensity. Yet the question 'What difference did it all make?' remains unanswered. Did it help to contain the Cold War, or fuel it and keep it going? Did it make it hotter or colder? Did these large...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Macmillan, Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1960

   By Kitty Newman

   Series: Cold War History

   This new study casts fresh light on the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. Drawing on previously unseen documents and secret archive material, Kitty Newman demonstrates how the British Prime Minister...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Economic Statecraft during the Cold War

   European Responses to the US Trade Embargo

   By Frank Cain

   Series: Cold War History

   Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet Union and communist China severed relationships with Europe, particularly focusing on Great Britain. In the late 1940s, the US government stopped nearly...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Russia, NATO and Cooperative Security

   Bridging the Gap

   By Lionel Ponsard

   Series: Contemporary Security Studies

   This book explores mutual common ground between Russia and NATO and the potential to move beyond cultural differences, particularly in political culture. Lionel Ponsard clearly demonstrates how cooperative security could serve as a means to bridge the gap between two supposedly antagonistic...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. Southeast Asia and the Cold War

   Edited by Albert Lau

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   The origins and the key defining moments of the Cold War in Southeast Asia have been widely debated. This book focuses on an area that has received less attention, the impact and legacy of the Cold War on the various countries in the region, as well as on the region itself. The book contributes to...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. Mao, Stalin and the Korean War

   Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s

   By Shen Zhihua

   Series: Cold War History

   This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Cold War in Southern Africa

   White Power, Black Liberation

   Edited by Sue Onslow

   Series: Cold War History

   This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change. In the aftermath of European decolonization, the struggle between...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950

    By Michael Fleming

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule, acting as a crucial nexus through which different...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge