Myths of the Cold War

Myths of the Cold War: Amending Historiographic Distortions provides a corrective for the distortions and omissions of many previous domestic and foreign (including Russian) studies of the Cold War, especially those published since 2000. The “present interest” motivation in Weeks's analysis is gaining a clear understanding of the bi-polar, $4 trillion, nuclea r-war-threatening standoff that lasted over 40 years after World War II until the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Without such knowled