Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the U.S.–Russia Relations Book Prize A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year The Cold War divis

The Cold War was a unique international conflict partly because Josef Stalin sought socialist transformation of other countries rather than simply the tradition

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine

A volume of original essays that reassesses the Soviet Union's impact on Europe, before, during, and after World War II.

Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.