"The Cold War stemmed from war, from the violence, fear and paranoia that conflict fostered, and from defeat and victo…"

"The same problems, of defeat at the hands of Germany, political division and social strain, weakened the Romanovs’ re…"

"More of the literature looked for continuity between the Soviet Union and Romanov Russia, and notably with the expans…"

"As another instance of the working out of themes, the early years of the Russian Revolution and the revolutionary reg…"

"The Russian Civil War is also instructive because the Cold War was quintessentially a military confrontation and a ke…"

"In military history, the Russian Civil War is often brushed into a brief cul-de-sac, after a lengthy treatment of Wor…"

"While all these untoward events were taking place, amid a ceaseless chatter of well-meant platitudes on both sides of…"

"In one of the ugliest wars of the twentieth century, the new Bolshevik government of Russia consolidated its power, f…"

"The other epidemic was Bolshevism, which for a time seemed almost as contagious and ultimately proved as lethal as th…"

"Moreover, the Whites had foreign support. The Czech Legion had been formed by Czech and Slovak nationalists to fight …"