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Because of the extent of the Cold War (in terms of time and scope), the conflict is well documented. Following are scholarly books and articles in English.
Overviews
- Ball, S. J. The Cold War: An International History, 1947–1991 (1998), British perspective; short summary; online edition
- Boyle Peter G. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism. 1993.
- Clarke, Bob. Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War (2005)
- Crockatt Richard. The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991. (1995). popular history
- Davis, Simon, and Joseph Smith. The A to Z of the Cold War (Scarecrow, 2005), encyclopedia focused on military aspects
- Friedman, Norman. The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War. (2000)
- Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History (2005), basic summary;
- Gaddis, John Lewis. Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States. An Interpretative History 2nd ed. (1990)
- Gaddis, John Lewis. Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987) online edition
- Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982)
- Garthoff, Raymond (1994). Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 0815730411.
- Hoffman, David E. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2010)
- LaFeber, Walter (2002). America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0072849037.
- Leffler, Melvyn (1992). A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804722188.
- Leffler, Melvyn P. and Odd Arne Westad, eds. The Cambridge History of the Cold War (3 vol, 2010) 2000pp; new essays by leading scholars
- Lundestad, Geir (2005). East, West, North, South: Major Developments in International Politics since 1945. Oxford University Press. ISBN 1412907489.
- Lüthi, Lorenz M (2008). The Sino-Soviet split: Cold War in the communist world. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691135908.
- McMahon, Robert (2003). The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192801783.
- Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet insecurity: the Stalin years (1996) online edition
- Mitchell, George. The Iron Curtain: The Cold War in Europe (2004)
- Njolstad, Olav (2004). The Last Decade of the Cold War. Routledge. ISBN 071468371X.
- Paterson, Thomas G. Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan (1988)
- Roberts, Geoffrey (2006). Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300112041.
- Sivachev, Nikolai and Nikolai Yakolev, Russia and the United States (1979), by Soviet historians
- Stone, Norman. The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War (2010); by leading military historian
- Taubman, William (2004). Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393324842.; Pulitzer Prize
- Tucker, Spencer, ed. Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2008), world coverage
- Walker, Martin. The Cold War: A History (1995), British perspective
- Wettig, Gerhard (2008). Stalin and the Cold War in Europe. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0742555429.
- Westad, Odd Arne The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of our Times (2006)
- Zubok, Vladislav M. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2008)
National perspectives
Soviet
- Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century (1989)
- Edmonds, Robin. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years (1983)
- Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Litai Xue, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (1993)
- Gorlizki, Yoram, and Oleg Khlevniuk. Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953 (2004) online edition
- Harrison, Hope Millard (2003). Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691096783.
- Haslam, Jonathan. Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (Yale University Press; 2011) 512 pages
- Mastny, Vojtech. Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941–1945 (1979)
- Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (1998) online complete edition; online edition from ACLS E-Books
- Nation, R. Craig. Black Earth, Red Star: A History of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1991 (1992)
- Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 (2007) 468pp
- Sivachev, Nikolai and Nikolai Yakolev, Russia and the United States (1979), by Soviet historians
- Taubman, William. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2004), Pulitzer Prize;
- Ulam, Adam B. Expansion and Coexistence: Soviet Foreign Policy, 1917–1973, 2nd ed. (1974)
- Wettig, Gerhard. Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence & Development of East-West Conflict, 1939-1953 (2008) 285p
- Zubok, Vladislav M. Inside the Kremlin's Cold War (1996)
- Zubok, Vladislav M. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2007)
American
- Bacevich, Andrew J., ed. The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II (2007)
- Cummings, Richard H. Radio Free Europe's Crusade for Freedom: Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting 1950-1960 (2010)
- Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982) online edition;
- Hogan, Michael J. America in the World: The Historiography of US Foreign Relations since 1941 (1996), scholarly articles reprinted from the journal Diplomatic History
- Leffler, Melvyn P. For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007)
- Lewis, Adrian R. The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom (2006)
- Paterson, Thomas G. Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan (1988), liberal
British
- Anderson Terry H. The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947. (1981)
- Bullock, Alan. Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951. 1983, on British policy
- Clarke, Bob. Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War (2005)
- Deighton Anne. "The 'Frozen Front': The Labour Government, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947," International Affairs 65, 1987: 449-465.
- Young, John W. Winston Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951-5 Clarendon Press, 1996 online edition
China
- Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Litai Xue, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (1993)
- Jian, Chen. Mao's China and the Cold War (2001)
- Jian, Chen. China's Road to the Korean War: Making of the Sino-American Confrontation (2004)
- Luthi, Lorenz M. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (2008)
- Roberts, Priscilla. Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War (2006)
- Ross, Robert S. Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969–1989, Stanford University Press, 1995 online edition
- Zhai, Qiang. China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (2000)
Europe
- Allen, Debra J. The Oder-Neisse Line: The United States, Poland, and Germany in the Cold War (2003) 309 pp.
- Borhi, László. Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956 (2004) 352 pages
- Clemens, Clay. Reluctant Realists: The Christian Democrats and West German Ostpolitik, Duke University Press, 1989 online edition
- Crace, Sylvia E. and John O. Crane. Czechoslovakia: Anvil of the Cold War, 1991
- Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, (2005)
- Naimark, Norman, and Leonid Gibianskii. Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 (1998)
- Ninkovich, Frank. Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question since 1945 (1988)
- Sarrotte, M.E. Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente & Ostpolitik, 1969-73 The University of North Carolina Press, (2001) online edition
- Turner, Henry Ashby. Germany from Partition to Reunification (1992)
Asia
- Goscha, Christopher E. & Ostermann, Christian F. (eds.), Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962. Washington, DC & Stanford California: Woodrow Wilson Center Press & Stanford University Press, 2009.
- Vu, Tuong & Wasana Wongsurawat (eds.), Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia: Ideology, Identity, and Culture. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
- Zheng Yangwen, Liu, Hong, & Szonyi, Michael (eds.). The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. Leiden: Brill University Press, 2010.
Origins: to 1950
- Anderson Terry H. The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947. (1981)
- Bullock Alan. Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945-1951. (1983), on British policy
- Chen Jian, China's Road to the Korean War: Making of the Sino-American Confrontation (2004)
- Clemens Diane Shaver. Yalta. 1970.
- Cumings, Bruce The Origins of the Korean War (2 vols., 1981–90), friendly to North Korea and hostile to US
- Deighton Anne. "The 'Frozen Front': The Labour Government, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947," International Affairs 65, 1987: 449-465.
- Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 (1972)
- Harbutt, Fraser. "The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War" (Oxford University Press, 1988)
- Holloway, David . Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1959–1956 (1994)
- Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (1993)
- Isaacson Walter, and Even Thomas. The Wise Men. Six Friends and the World They Made. Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy. 1986.
- Leffler, Melvyn. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (1992).
- Mastny, Vojtech. Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941–1945 (1979)
- Levering, Ralph, Vladamir Pechatnov, Verena Botzenhart-Viehe, and C. Earl Edmondson. Debating the Origins of the Cold War (2001)
- Yonosuke Nagai and Akira Iriye, eds., The Origins of the Cold War in Asia. 1977
- Trachtenberg, Marc. A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945–1963 (1999) (ISBN 0-691-00273-8)
1950s and 1960s
- Beschloss, Michael. Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years, 1960–63 (1991)
- Beschloss Michael. Mayday: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the U-2 Affair 1986.
- Brands, H. W. Cold Warriors. Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy (1988).
- Brands, H. W. The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1997)
- Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict, New York: Praeger (1961), ISBN 0-674-82545-4
- Chen Jian, Mao's China and the Cold War (2001)
- Chernus, Ira, Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity (2008)
- Cummings, Richard H. "Radio Free Europe's 'Crusade for Freedom': Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950-1960," (2010)
- Divine, Robert A. Eisenhower and the Cold War (1981)
- Divine, Robert A. ed., The Cuban Missile Crisis 2nd ed. (1988)
- Duiker William J. U.S. Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina. 1994.
- Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000)
- Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy Naftali. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964 (1997)
- Granville, Johanna. The First Domino: International Decision Making During the Hungarian Crisis of 1956. (2004)
- Kunz, Diane B. The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American foreign Relations during the 1960s (1994)
- Navratil, Jaromir. The Prague Spring 68´ (1998)
- Lüthi, Lorenz M. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (2008)
- Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (1998)
- Melanson, Richard A. and David Mayers, eds., Reevaluating Eisenhower. American Foreign Policy in the 1950s (1986)
- Paterson, Thomas G. ed., Kennedy's Quest for Victory: American Foreign Policy, 1961–1963 (1989).
- Radchenko, Sergey, Two Suns In the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 (2008)
- Reynolds, David, ed. The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives (1994)
- Stueck, Jr. William W. The Korean War: An International History (1995)
- Vandiver, Frank E. Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars (1997)
- Williams, Kirrian. The Prague Spring and its Aftermath : Czechoslovak Politics, 1968–1970 (1997)
Detente: 1969–1979
- Edmonds, Robin. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years (1983)
- Garthoff, Raymond. Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan 2nd ed (1994), detailed narrative
- Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger (1992);
- Kissinger, Henry. White House Years (1979) and Years of Upheaval (1982)
- Nixon, Richard. Memoirs (1981)
- Sarrotte, M.E. Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente & Ostpolitik, 1969-73 The University of North Carolina Press, (2001)
- Ulam, Adam B. Dangerous Relations. The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970–1982 (1983)
- Westad, O. A., The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years, 1997 (Aschehoug AS) ISBN 82-00-37671-0
Second Cold War: 1979–1986
- Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981 (1983);
- Edmonds, Robin. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years (1983)
- Mower, A. Glenn Jr. Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: The Carter and Reagan Experiences (1987),
- Smith, Gaddis. Morality, Reason and Power:American Diplomacy in the Carter Years (1986).
End of Cold War: 1986–1991
- Beschloss, Michael, and Strobe Talbott. At the Highest Levels:The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (1993)
- Bialer, Seweryn and Michael Mandelbaum, eds. Gorbachev's Russia and American Foreign Policy (1988).
- Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations (1992)
- Garthoff, Raymond. The Great Transition:American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (1994), detailed narrative
- Hogan, Michael ed. The End of the Cold War. Its Meaning and Implications (1992) articles from Diplomatic History online at JSTOR
- Kyvig, David ed. Reagan and the World (1990)
- Mann, James. Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War (2009) 390p; excerpt and text search
- Matlock, Jack F. Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995)
- Matlock, Jack F. Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended (2004)
- Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993)
- Pons, S., Romero, F., Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War: Issues, Interpretations, Periodizations, (2005) (London: Frank Cass) ISBN 071465695X (Hardback)
- David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Vintage Books, 1994, ISBN 0-679-75125-4
Economics and Internal Forces
- Heiss, Mary Ann. "The Economic Cold War: America, Britain, and East-West Trade, 1948–63" The Historian, Vol. 65, (2003)
- Hogan, Michael J. The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947–1952 (1989)
- Keohane, Robert O. and Joseph S. Nye. Power and Interdependence (3rd Edition) (2000)
- Kunz, Diane B. Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy (1997)
- Morgan, Patrick M. and Keith L. Nelson (eds); Re-Viewing the Cold War: Domestic Factors and Foreign Policy in the East-West Confrontation (1997)
Intelligence
- Aldrich, Richard J. The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence (2002).
- Ambrose, Stephen E. Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Intelligence Establishment (1981).
- Andrew, Christopher and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (1999)
- Mitrokhin. Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Mitrokhin Archive (1999). vol 1, on KGB
- Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky. KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev (1990).
- Blum, William , Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Common Courage Press (2003)
- Bogle, Lori, ed. Cold War Espionage and Spying (2001), essays
- Cummings, Richard H., Cold War Radio: The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1950-1989 (2010)
- Dorril, Stephen. MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (2000).
- Gates, Robert M. From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story Of Five Presidents And How They Won The Cold War (1997)
- Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (1999).
- Helms, Richard. A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency (2003)
- Koehler, John O. Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police (1999)
- Murphy, David E., Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey. Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War (1997).
- Prados, John. Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II (1996)
- Rositzke, Harry. The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action (1988)
- Trahair, Richard C. S. Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies and Secret Operations (2004), by an Australian scholar; contains historiographical introduction
- Weinstein, Allen, and Alexander Vassiliev. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era (1999).
- Christopher A. Ford, David A. Rosenberg, Randy Carole Balano, The Admirals' Advantage: U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence in World War II And the Cold War. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005).
- The Cold War at sea: an international appraisal, Journal of Strategic Studies, (April 2005). Special issue guest editors: Lyle J. Goldstein, John B. Hattendorf and Yuri M. Zhukov.
- John B. Hattendorf, The Evolution of the U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977-1986. Newport Paper, no. 19. (Newport: Naval War College Press, 2005).
- Peter Huchthausen and Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix.Hide and seek: the untold story of Cold War espionage at sea. (Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, 2008).
- Norman Polmar, Chronology of the Cold War at Sea, 1945-1991. (Annapolis; Naval Institute Press, 1998.
- Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage. (New York: Public Affairs, 1998).
- David F. Winkler, Cold War at Sea: High-Seas Confrontation Between the United States and the Soviet Union. (Annapolis; Naval Institute Press, 2000.
Propaganda, rhetoric, popular culture
- Barnhisel, Greg, and Catherine Turner, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War (2010) 312 pages.
- Boyer, Paul S. By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1994)
- Carpenter, Charles A. Dramatists and the Bomb: American and British Playwrights Confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964. Greenwood, 1999. 183 pp.
- Charney, Michael W. "U Nu, China and the "Burmese" Cold War: Propaganda in Burma in the 1950s" in Zheng Yangwen, Hong Liu, & Michael Szonyi (eds.), The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds (Leiden: Brill University Press): pp. 41-58.
- Gery, John. Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness. U. Press of Florida, 1996. 235 pp.
- Henriksen, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. U. of California Press, 1997. 451 pp.
- Kirby, Dianne ed. Religion and the Cold War (2003) 272 pp.
- Major, Patrick. "Future Perfect?: Communist Science Fiction in the Cold War." Cold War History 2003 4(1): 71-96. Issn: 1468-2745 Fulltext: in Ebsco
- Marsh, Rosalind J. Soviet Fiction Since Stalin: science, politics and literature (1986)
- McConachie, Bruce. American Theatre and the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962. University of Iowa Press, 2003; 364pp
- Medhurst, Martin J. Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology Michigan State University Press, 1997
- Miller, D. Quentin. John Updike and the Cold War: Drawing the Iron Curtain (2001)
- Mitter, Patrick Major Rana. Across the Blocs. Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History (2004) 150pp;
- Mulvihill, Jason. "James Bond's Cold War Part I" Journal of Instructional Media, Vol. 28, (2001)
- Parker, Stephen R., Rhys W. Williams, Colin Riordan. German Writers and the Cold War, 1945-61 (1992) 250pp
- Resch, John P., et al. Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront (2005), vol 4: 1946 to Present
- Schwartz, Richard Alan. Cold War Culture: Media and the Arts, 1945–1990 (2000)
- Seed, David. American Science Fiction and the Cold War (2002)
- Shapiro Jerome F. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film (2001)
- Shaw, Tony. Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds (University Press of Kansas; 2010) 301 pages; compares five American and five Soviet films
- Stone, Albert E. Literary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb. (1994).
- Ventresca, Robert A. "The Virgin and the Bear: Religion, Society and the Cold War in Italy." Journal of Social History. Volume: 37#2 (2003) pp 439+.
- Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War (1996) ISBN 0-8018-5195-5
- Winkler, Allan M. Life under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom. (1993). 290 pp.
- Wittner, Lawrence S. The Struggle against the Bomb. 3 vol (1993–2003). antiwar movements in US and Europe
- Zeman, Scott C. "I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism and the Cold War Imagination," Journal of Popular Culture, August, 2004
Novels
- Burdick, Eugene, and Harvey Wheeler. Fail-Safe (1962)
Religion
- Gunn, T. Jeremy Spiritual Weapons: The Cold War and the Forging of an American National Religion (2008) ISBN 0275985490 Praeger
- Kirby, Dianne (Editor) Religion and the Cold War (2002) ISBN 0333993985 Palgrave Macmillan
- Inboden III, William Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment (2008) ISBN 0521513472 Cambridge University Press
Historiography
- Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Cold War Revisionists. (2006). 142 pp.
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila. "Russia's Twentieth Century in History and Historiography," The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 46, 2000
- Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, (1998) also online edition * Gaddis, John Lewis. "The Emerging Post-Revisionist Synthesis on the Origins of the Cold War," Diplomatic History, Summer 1983: 171-190.
- Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. (1982). online edition
- Garthoff, Raymond L. "Foreign Intelligence and the Historiography of the Cold War." Journal of Cold War Studies 2004 6(2): 21-56. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: Project Muse
- Kaplan, Lawrence S. American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, (1991) online edition
- Kort, Michael. The Columbia Guide to the Cold War (1998)
- Matlock, Jack F. "The End of the Cold War" Harvard International Review, Vol. 23 (2001)
- Olesen, Thorsten B. Ed. The Cold War and the Nordic Countries: Historiography at a Crossroads. Odense: U Southern Denmark Press, 2004. Pp. 194. online review
- Suri, Jeremi. "Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?" Journal of Cold War Studies - Volume 4, Number 4, Fall 2002, pp. 60–92 in Project Muse
- Trachtenberg, Marc. "The Marshall Plan as Tragedy." Journal of Cold War Studies 2005 7(1): 135-140. Issn: 1520-3972 Fulltext: in Project Muse
- Walker, J. Samuel. "Historians and Cold War Origins: The New Consensus", in Gerald K. Haines and J. Samuel Walker, eds., American Foreign Relations: A Historiographical Review (1981), 207–236.
- Westad, Arne Odd. "The New International History of the Cold War: Three (Possible) Paradigms," Diplomatic History, 2000, Vol. 24 in EBSCO
- Westad, Arne Odd, ed. Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (2000) essays by scholars
- White, Timothy J. "Cold War Historiography: New Evidence Behind Traditional Typographies" International Social Science Review, (2000)
- William Appleman Williams The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1958) (1988 edition: ISBN 0-393-30493-0)
- Berger, Henry W. ed. A William Appleman Williams Reader (1992)
- Redefining the Past: Essays in Diplomatic History in Honor of William Appleman Williams. Lloyd C. Gardner (ed.) (1986)
- Xia, Yafeng. "The Study of Cold War International History in China: A Review of the Last Twenty Years," Journal of Cold War Studies10#1 Winter 2008, pp. 81–115 in Project Muse
Primary sources: Documents and memoirs
Document collections
- Chang, Laurence and Peter Kornbluh, eds., The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1952 (1985)
- Etzold, Thomas and John Lewis Gaddis, eds., Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945–1950 (1978)
- Hanhimaki, Jussi M. and Odd Arne Westad, eds. The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (2004)
- John B. Hattendorf, ed., U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1970s: Selected Documents. Newport Paper, no. .(Newport: Naval War College Press, 2007).
- John B. Hattendorf and Peter M. Swartz, eds., U.S. Naval Strategy in the 1980s: Selected Documents. Newport Paper, no. 33.(Newport: Naval War College Press, 2008).
- John B. Hattendorf, The Evolution of the U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977-1986. Newport Paper, no. 19 (Newport: Naval War College Press, 2005). Appendix I, pp. 101–183, is the CIA's National Intelligence Estimate on "Soviet Naval Strategy and Programs through 1990": NIE-11—15-82D of 19 October 1982.
- "Cold War Archival Material". United States Army Center of Military History. http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/tcwy.html#tab_2. Retrieved June 10, 2010.
- "Virtual Archive". Cold War International History Project. http://www.cwihp.org. Retrieved December 02, 2010.
Memoirs
- Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1992).
- Baruch, Bernard. The Public Years (1960).
- Bohlen, Charles. Witness to History, 1929-1969. 1973
- Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev's trilogy (1978–79)
- Brzezinski, Zbigniew. Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981 (1983);
- Milovan, Djilas. Conversations with Stalin. 1962, Yugoslav perspective
- Eden, Anthony. The Memoirs of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon. Vol. 2: The Reckoning. London: 1965.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-1956. (1963); The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1957-1961. (1965).
- Kennan, George F. Memoirs, 1925-1950. 1957
- Kosygin, Alexei, Memoirs (?)
- Khrushchev, Nikita. Memoirs:
- Khrushchev Remembers ed. Strobe Talbott (1991)
- Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament ed. Strobe Talbott (1987)
- Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes ed. Jerrold Schechter (1989)
- Gromyko, Andrei Memoirs (1989).
- Kissinger, Henry
- vol 1 White House Years (1979)
- vol 2 Years of Upheaval (1982)
- vol 3 Years of Renewal (1999), 1974–1976
- Nixon, Richard. Memoirs (1981)
- Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993)
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