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To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
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- ISBN-101108477356
- ISBN-13978-1108477352
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateMay 30, 2024
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.9 x 2.1 x 9.1 inches
- Print length768 pages
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‘A tour de force. Based on a plethora of previously unmined Soviet (and Chinese) sources, To Run the World is thought-provoking, comprehensive narrative of the Soviet Union’s place and aspirations in the global Cold War.’ Kristina Spohr, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989
‘If we are entering a new cold war with China, then we should study the lessons from the last Cold War. Radchenko’s To Run the World is the place to start. Drawing on new archival material, insightful analysis, and brilliant writing, Radchenko’s book will instantly become the go-to source for understanding Soviet behavior during the Cold War. This book sets such a high standard that I wonder if any more books on this subject will ever be written.’ Michael McFaul, author of From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
‘Sergey Radchenko has produced what can only be described as an invaluable and ‘magisterial’ book - the fitting culmination of a ten-year odyssey to plumb the archival depths for new insight into the bases of the Soviet Union’s power and global ambitions during the Cold War. Radchenko’s incisive analysis, crisp prose, and vivid descriptions make for pleasurable and rewarding reading. His final observations on the USSR’s craving for ‘greatness before history’ and its leaders’ assertions of the ‘right to exceptionalism,’ help explain why Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine and confront the West in 2022. Putin has the same drivers and motivations as his Soviet forebears.’ Fiona Hill, author of There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century
‘Enthralling and masterful, To Run the World is a tour de force of riveting narrative, fascinating new archival research, fresh analysis and acute portraits of global potentates, that reassesses the big questions of the Cold War from Stalin and Mao to Reagan, Deng, Gorbachev, and on to Putin, and illuminates not only the superpowers but also the global players from Vietnam to Cuba and Angola: magisterial world history at its finest.’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity
'A remarkably balanced, brilliant, ambitious, durable work of scholarship, combining histories of the Cold War with Soviet foreign policy.' Zachary Irwin, Library Journal
'Masterful...indispensable.' Ed Luce, Financial Times
'Radchenko’s read provides unparalleled insights into the Soviet leadership’s decision-making processes. Not only has it surpassed anything yet written … this book will also likely be the standard-bearer for years, and potentially decades, to come.' Casey Michel, Foreign Policy
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- Publisher : Cambridge University Press (May 30, 2024)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 768 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1108477356
- ISBN-13 : 978-1108477352
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.9 x 2.1 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #31,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10 in Russian & Soviet Politics
- #91 in History & Theory of Politics
- #397 in Unknown
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Sergey Radchenko is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has written extensively on the Cold War, nuclear history, and on Russian and Chinese foreign and security policies. He has served as a Global Fellow and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre and as the Zi Jiang Distinguished Professor at East China Normal University (Shanghai). Professor Radchenko’s books include To Run the World: the Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power (Cambridge UP, forthcoming in 2024), Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy (Wilson Center Press & Stanford UP, 2009), and Unwanted Visionaries: the Soviet Failure in Asia (Oxford UP, 2014). Professor Radchenko is a native of Sakhalin Island, Russia, was educated in the US, Hong Kong, and the UK, where he received his PhD in 2005 (LSE). Before he joined SAIS, Professor Radchenko worked and lived in Mongolia, China, and Wales.
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