Zachary T. Irwin
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To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power
A remarkably balanced, brilliant, ambitious, durable work of scholarship, combining histories of the Cold War with Soviet foreign policy. A good read-alike is Adam Ulam’s Expansion and Coexistence: The History of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–67.
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The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
Personal accounts drive this highly recommended book’s powerful accounts of the crises handled over 60 years in the Situation Room.
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Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability
A compelling and detailed account that reveals some little known facts and a deeply sobering analysis of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, its consequences for Russia, and the many assumptions about European security.
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The Dissident: Alexey Navalny; Profile of a Political Prisoner
Herszenhorn expertly portrays Navalny as a resilient figure and as a “prisoner of conscience” who evolves from a crusader to a political leader symbolizing democratic Russia.
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“A Mind Purified by Suffering”: Evgenia Ginzburg’s “Whirlwind” Memoirs
A significant title for scholars of Soviet literature, but a less compelling book for those seeking the wider meaning of Ginzburg’s fate in the 20th century.
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Battlefield Cyber: How China and Russia Are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security
Still, the confirmed successes of Chinese and Russian cyberwarfare make this book a gripping and highly recommended read.
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The World in Conflict: Understanding the World’s Troublespots
Overall, this is a valuable and detailed book that parenthetically revels the pervasive impact of low intensity conflict and asymmetric warfare. Add to political science, history, and international studies collections.
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
A splendid book. Avoiding the usual fare of power and the Communist Party, the author reveals the pervasive political character of Soviet life.
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Volodymyr Zelensky in His Own Words
Recommended with reservation. However impressive, Zelensky’s quotations tell relatively little about Ukraine, its politics, or the war. A book with expanded context would be more useful.
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