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Article: Cold War blues: with one eye on Baghdad.(The Cold War, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World, Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite)(Book review)
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The Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis; Allen Lane, 2006, $32.95.
The Mitrokhin Archive II, by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin; Allen Lane, 2005, $59.95.
Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite, by Kenneth Gee; Desert Pea Press, 2006, $29.95.
WAS IT WORTH IT? asks John Lewis Gaddis of Yale. Will future generations dismiss the Cold War as a squabble of indistinguishable ideologies and their state sponsors?
What did it all amount to?
Professor Gaddis's answer to the first question is Yes. To the second: No. To the third, he echoes Abbe Sieyes after the French Revolution: We survived. (He does not mean merely that we ...