A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin Mark Galeotti
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- ISBN 9781781259122
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 154 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times
'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. Nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures: not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears.
Drawing on a vast array of untapped archives and unseen sources, Martin Sixsmith vividly recreates the tensions and paranoia of the Cold War, framing it for the first time from a psychological perspective. Revisiting towering personalities like Khrushchev, Kennedy and Nixon, as well as the lives of the unknown millions who were caught up in the conflict, this is a gripping account of fear itself - one which is more resonant than ever today.
Martin Sixsmith studied Russian at Oxford, Harvard, the Sorbonne and in St Petersburg, and psychology at Birkbeck and London Metropolitan University. He witnessed the end of the Cold War first hand, reporting for the BBC from Moscow during the presidencies of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. He is the author of two novels and several works of non-fiction, including Philomena and Russia: A 1,000 Year Chronicle of the Wild East.
