From the preface: This volume, like its predecessors "NATO after thirty years" (1981) and "The Warsaw Pact: political purpose and military means" (1982) , grew out of a conference held at Kent (Ohio, USA). The authors of the essays in this collection are concerned with superpower and allied...

The budget of the Soviet Communist Party -- Trends in party finance, 1939 - 1965 -- The special budget of 1948 -- "Impossible structures": resource allocation and party donors -- Funding loyalty with promises -- The party and its overseers -- Selective justice: party control under Stalin -- How...

The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy – and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola’s authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary...