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"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of GenocideSamantha Power200336 pts5 wins6 listsBasic BooksPolitics & GovernmentWar & Military Strategy+3
George F. Kennan: An American LifeJohn Lewis Gaddis201128 pts3 wins4 listsW. W. NortonBiographyCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After CommunismTina Rosenberg199524 pts3 wins3 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Red Famine: Stalin's War on UkraineAnne Applebaum201720 pts2 wins4 listsDoubledayHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956Anne Applebaum201220 pts1 wins4 listsDoubledayHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical TechnologyChris Miller202218 pts2 wins3 listsScribnerTechnologyCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarFrances FitzGerald200018 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterPolitics & GovernmentWorld War Ii+2
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United StatesKenneth T. Jackson198714 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi EconomyAdam Tooze200612 pts1 wins2 listsAllen LaneBusiness & EconomicsCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of NationsCarl Benedikt Frey202512 pts1 wins3 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global PowerSergey Radchenko202410 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressPolitics & GovernmentWar & Military Strategy+2
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-45Halik Kochanski202210 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Light that Failed: A ReckoningIvan Krastev, Stephen Holmes201910 pts1 wins1 listsPegasus BooksPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet UnionSerhii Plokhy201410 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+2
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous LegacyDavid E. Hoffman200910 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940Margaret D. Jacobs200910 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Nebraska PressRace & EthnicitySettler Colonialism+3
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our TimesOdd Arne Westad200510 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the WorldWalter Russell Mead200110 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentEmpire & Colonialism+3
The Man Who Loved Only NumbersPaul Hoffman199810 pts1 wins1 listsFourth EstateBiographyCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Aftermath: The Remnants of WarDonovan Webster199610 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksWar & MilitaryWorld War I+3
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to KhrushchevVladislav Zubok, Constantine Pleshakov199610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
The Age of Extremes: The Short 20th Century, 1914–1991Eric Hobsbawm199410 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksHistorySettler Colonialism+3
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold WarMelvyn P. Leffler199210 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Weapons and HopeFreeman Dyson198310 pts1 wins1 listsHarper & RowPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+2
The United States and the Origins of the Cold WarJohn Lewis Gaddis196810 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Winston S. Churchill, vol. VI: Finest HourMartin Gilbert198310 pts1 wins1 listsWilliam HeinemannBiographyCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian RevolutionYuri Slezkine201710 pts2 wins3 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryReligion & Religious Movements+3
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of SafetyEric Schlosser201310 pts0 wins3 listsPenguin PressWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+2
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarSusan Southard20158 pts2 wins2 listsVikingHistoryGrief, Trauma & Recovery+3
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium DisastersKate Brown20138 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951Peter Hennessy19938 pts2 wins2 listsJonathan CapeHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty YearsMcGeorge Bundy19888 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentWorld War Ii+2
The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic AgeGeorge F. Kennan19828 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+2
Anthony Blunt: His LivesMiranda Carter20016 pts1 wins2 listsPicadorBiographyClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson20246 pts0 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryWar & Military Strategy+3
Nuclear War: A ScenarioAnnie Jacobsen20246 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin Publishing GroupWar & MilitaryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
The Baton and The Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to PutinLucy Ash20246 pts0 wins2 listsIcon BooksReligionHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American SoulJames McBride20166 pts0 wins2 listsSpiegel & GrauBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's SuperpowersSimon Winchester20156 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and RevolutionariesDaniela Richterova20254 pts1 wins1 listsGeorgetown University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939Samuel J. Hirst20244 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryEurope & Russia+2
Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron CurtainSonja K. Pieck20234 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressNature & EnvironmentImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in AntarcticaDavid J. Drewry20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
The PicnicMatthew Longo20234 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonPolitics & GovernmentPrisons & Incarceration+3
Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for TruthJane Rogoyska20224 pts1 wins1 listsOneworldHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War IIFrancine Hirsch20204 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945Emma Kuby20194 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s RussiaJoan Neuberger20194 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressArts & CriticismFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold WarBenn Steil20184 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryWar & Military Strategy+3
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western CultureEleonory Gilburd20184 pts1 wins1 listsBelknap PressJournalism & ReportageArt, Music & Performance+3
Strange Glow: The Story of RadiationTimothy J. Jorgensen20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Stalin: New Biography of a DictatorOleg V. Khlevniuk20154 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Fukushima Accident: Radioactivity Impact on the EnvironmentPavel P. Povinec, Katsumi Hirose,, Michio Aoyama20134 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierScienceCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and PolandMichael Meng20114 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Trotsky: A BiographyRobert Service20094 pts1 wins1 listsPan MacmillanBiographyMedicine, Health & the Body+3
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold WarMelvyn Leffler20074 pts1 wins1 listsHill and WangHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+3
Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold WarRobert Beisner20064 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet HeartlandKate Brown20054 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in VietnamMark Lawrence20054 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressHistorySettler Colonialism+3
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of JapanHarvard University Press20054 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The End of the SoulJennifer Michael Hecht20034 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressPolitics & GovernmentEducation & Universities+3
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999Timothy Snyder20034 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryReconstruction+3
A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War EraMatthew Connelly20024 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryIndigenous History+3
About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to ClintonJames Mann20004 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfPolitics & GovernmentCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-63Marc Trachtenberg19994 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin YearsVojtech Mastny19964 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Moscow: Governing The Socialist MetropolisTimothy J. Colton19954 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Encyclopedia of Arms Control and DisarmamentRichard Dean Burns19934 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Small Wars, Big Defense: Paying for the Military After the Cold WarMurray Weidenbaum19924 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Blundering Into DisasterRobert S. McNamara19874 pts1 wins1 listsPantheonWar & MilitaryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Deadly GambitsStrobe Talbott19854 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+1
Pax AmericanaRonald Steel19674 pts1 wins1 listsVikingPolitics & GovernmentEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
The Foreign Policies of Soviet RussiaAlfred Dennis19244 pts1 wins1 listsDuttonHistoryEurope & Russia+2
Between Churchill and Stalin. The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand AllianceSteven Miner19904 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
British and American Commercial Relations with Soviet Russia, 1918-24Christine White19934 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital UtopianismFred Turner20064 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressSociety & CultureCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. DisengagementSelig Harrison20024 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressPolitics & GovernmentWar & Military Strategy+3
Poland’s Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939-43Sarah Terry19834 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The Formation of the Soviet UnionRichard Pipes19554 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryEurope & Russia+2
The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22Carole Fink19854 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressPolitics & GovernmentReconstruction+3
The Lysenko AffairDavid Joravsky19714 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War AmericaAndrew C. McKevitt20234 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryAmerican Civil War+2
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022Frank Trentmann20234 pts0 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American OrderRush Doshi20234 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressPolitics & GovernmentDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet UnionVladislav M. Zubok20224 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable AuthoritarianismSteven Levitsky, Lucan Way20224 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Sleeping BeautiesSuzanne O'Sullivan20214 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War PlannerDaniel Ellsberg20184 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyWar & MilitaryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
The Future of War: A HistoryLawrence Freedman20174 pts0 wins1 listsPublicAffairsWar & MilitaryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Kissinger 1923–1968: The IdealistNiall Ferguson20154 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin BooksBiographyImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power PoliticsPaul Bracken20124 pts0 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyPolitics & GovernmentAmerican Politics+1
The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in AsiaNick Cullather20114 pts0 wins1 listsHarvard University PressPolitics & GovernmentScience & Discovery+3
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern WorldDaniel Yergin20114 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressPolitics & GovernmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Yalta: The Price of PeaceSerhii M. Plokhy20104 pts0 wins1 listsVikingHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarDavid Halberstam20074 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized AmericaRonald Brownstein20074 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressPolitics & GovernmentAmerican Civil War+2
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen BombRichard Rhodes19954 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra AffairsTheodore Draper19924 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Present History: On Nuclear War, Detente and OtherTheodore Draper19834 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintPolitics & GovernmentWar & Military Strategy+2
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All awards · Topic: Cold War & Nuclear Politics · Sorted by score · 132 books · filtered