Book reviews
The reviews listed below relate to the study of the Cold War. Most are taken from the IHR's online reviews journal Reviews in History, but five new reviews have been specially commissioned for this issue of History in Focus: The People's State by Mary Fulbrook, Driving the Soviets up the Wall by Hope Harrison, The Cold War's Odd Couple by Steve Tsang, The Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad and The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts edited by Jussi M. Hanhimäki and Odd Arne Westad. Readers must remember that this is only a selection of books from a vast number published on this topic.
General
Religion and the Cold War
edited by Dianne Kirby
Review by Merrilyn Thomas
Response by Dianne Kirby
The Cold War: The Essential Readings
edited by Klaus Larres and Ann Lane
and
Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956
by Gregory Mitrovich
and
Acheson and Empire: The British Accent in American Foreign Policy
by John T. McNay
and
The Cold War Era
by Fraser J. Harbutt
Reviewed by Dianne Kirby
Response by John T. McNay
The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts
edited by Jussi M. Hanhimäki and Odd Arne Westad
Review by Vanessa Walker
China (PRC and ROC)
Mao: A Life
by Philip Short
Review by Philip Richardson
Response by Philip Short
The Cold War's Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership beween the Republic of China and the UK, 1950–58
by Steve Tsang
Review by Chi-Kwan Mark
Germany
The Fall of the GDR: Germany's Road to Unity
by David Childs
Reviewed by Jan Palmowski
Response by David Childs
Germany from Defeat to Partition, 1945–1963
by D. G. Williamson
Review by Pertti Ahonen
Response by D. G. Williamson
Germany and the European East in the Twentieth Century
edited by Eduard Mühle
Reviewed by John Hiden
Politics and Popular Opinion in East Germany, 1945–68
by Mark Allinson
Review by Patrick Major
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany
by Charles S. Maier
Review by Anne Deighton
Constructing Socialism at the Grass-Roots: The Transformation of East Germany, 1945–65
by Corey Ross
Review by Patrick Major
The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker
by Mary Fulbrook
Review by Josie McLellan
Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953–1961
by Hope Harrison
Review by Jeannette Madarász
International
The Revolutions of 1989
edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Review by Geoffrey Swain
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times
by Odd Arne Westad
Review by John W. Young
Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War: the Irony of Interdependence
by Nigel Ashton
and
Kennedy, de Gaulle and Western Europe
by Erin Mahan
Review by Kevin Ruane.
After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943–1960
edited by Mark Mazower
Review by Patrick Finney
Against the Cold War. The History and Political Traditions of Pro-Sovietism in the British Labour Party, 1945–89
by Darren G. Lilleker
Review by Jon Davis
Response by Darren G. Lilleker
Soviet Union
Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945–1953
by Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk
Review by Miriam Dobson
Response by Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917–1991
by Richard Sakwa
Review by Peter Waldron
Response by Richard Sakwa
A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
by Robert Service
Review by Christopher Read