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~~The~~ [[Cold War]] has been analyzed by many historians and political scientists. This is a selected list of the best books and a few articles. Note that most books published before 1989 are badly outdated because they lack access to the Soviet archives that opened after Communism collapsed in Europe in 1989-91.

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leThe [[Cold War]] has been analyzed by many historians and political scientists. This is a selected list of the best books and a few articles. Note that most books published before 1989 are badly outdated because they lack access to the Soviet archives that opened after Communism collapsed in Europe in 1989-91.

==Bibliography==

* Bacevich, Andrew J., ed. ''The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0231131585/ref=sib_dp_bod_ex?ie=UTF8&p=S00D#reader-link excerpt and text search]

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* Sivachev, Nikolai and Nikolai Yakolev, ''Russia and the United States'' (1979), by Soviet historians

* Westad, Odd Arne ''The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/052170314X/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and text search]

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* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev'' (2007)

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* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Failed-Empire-Soviet-Gorbachev-History/dp/0807859583/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252833311&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]

* Zubok, Vladislav M. ''Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War'' (1996) [http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books#q=zubok&filter=all&start=1 20% excerpt and online search]

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* Jian, Chen. ''Mao's China and the Cold War'' (2001)

* Jian, Chen. ''China's Road to the Korean War: Making of the Sino-American Confrontation'' (2004)

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* Luthi, Lorenz M. ''The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World'' (2008) [http://www.amazon.com/Sino-Soviet-Split-Communist-Princeton-International/dp/0691135908/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252833570&sr=1-14 excerpt and text search]

* Roberts, Priscilla. ''Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War'' (2006)

* Ross, Robert S. ''Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989,'' Stanford University Press, 1995 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=92018683 online edition]

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* Leffler, Melvyn. ''A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War'' (1992). [http://hdl.handle.net.proxy.cc.uic.edu/2027/heb.00097 online at ACLS e-books], liberal

* Levering, Ralph, Vladamir Pechatnov, Verena Botzenhart-Viehe, and C. Earl Edmondson. ''Debating the Origins of the Cold War'' (2001), Americans debate non-Communist Russians

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* Yonosuke ~~Nagai~~ and Akira Iriye, eds., ''The Origins of the Cold War in Asia.'' 1977

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* Nagai, Yonosuke, and Akira Iriye, eds., ''The Origins of the Cold War in Asia.'' 1977

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* Thompson, Nicholas. ''The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War'' (2009)

* Trachtenberg, Marc. ''A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963'' (1999)

* Whitcomb, Roger S. ''The Cold War in Retrospect: The Formative Years'' Praeger Publishers, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=26243570 online edition]

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* Hogan, Michael ed. ''The End of the Cold War. Its Meaning and Implications'' (1992) articles from ''Diplomatic History'' online at JSTOR; [http://www.amazon.com/End-Cold-War-Meaning-Implications/dp/052143128X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930923&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Kyvig, David ed. ''Reagan and the World'' (1990), essays by scholars; [http://www.amazon.com/Reagan-World-David-E-Kyvig/dp/0275935655/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211930956&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

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* Mann, James. ''The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War'' (2009) [http://www.amazon.com/Rebellion-Ronald-Reagan-History-Cold/dp/0670020540/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252833311&sr=1-8 excerpt and text search]

* Matlock, Jack F. ''Autopsy of an Empire'' (1995) by Reagan's very well informed ambassador to Moscow

* Matlock, Jack F. "The End of the Cold War," ''Harvard International Review,'' Vol. 23, 2001 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000901782 online edition]

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* Dorril, Stephen. ''MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service'' (2000).

* Garthoff, Raymond L. "Foreign Intelligence and the Historiography of the Cold War." ''Journal of Cold War Studies'' 2004 6(2): 21-56. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: Project Muse and Ebsco

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* Gates, Robert M. ''From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story Of Five Presidents And How They Won The Cold War'' (1997)

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* Gates, Robert M. ''From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story Of Five Presidents And How They Won The Cold War'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Ultimate-Insiders-Story-Presidents/dp/1416543368/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252833677&sr=1-26 excerpt and text search]

* Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (1999).

* Helms, Richard. ''A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency'' (2003)

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