Research and Teaching Interests:
Soviet/Russian Political and Social History; The Cold War; The Impact of Wars and International Conflicts on Societies
Personal Statement:
I am also working on a new project "Soviet Sixties: Soviet Power and Culture between the Cold War and the West."
Representative Publications:
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, 2007
Russian Anti-Americanism: From Stalin to Putin (with Eric Shiraev), 2000
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War. From Stalin to Khrushchev (with Constantin Pleshakov), 1996. Won Lionel Gelber Prize as a best English-language book on international relations in 1996.
Political Parties and Executive Elites in the United States (with Yuri Abramov), 1990
A Forest and the Trees: Outlines of Three National Ways of Life (with Vladimir Tsvetov and Viktor Levin), 1991.
"Why Did the Cold War End in 1989? Explanations of 'The Turn'" in: Odd Arne Westad (ed.), Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory. (London, 2000).
"Gorbachev's Nuclear Learning," Boston Book Review, April-May, 2000.
“Khrushchev and Divided Germany, 1953-1964” in William Taubman, Sergei Khrushchev and Abbott Gleason (eds.), Nikita Khrushchev: Fresh Perspectives on the Last Communist, forthcoming in 2000.
“Stalin and Nuclear Weapons,” in John Lewis Gaddis, Philip H. Gordon, Ernest R. May and Jonathan Rosenberg (eds.), Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb, London, 1999.
“Khrushchev and Nuclear Weapons” (with Hope Harrison) in John Lewis Gaddis, Philip H. Gordon, Ernest R. May and Jonathan Rosenberg (eds.), Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb, London, 1999.
“The Soviet Union and European Integration from Stalin to Gorbachev,” Journal of European Integration History, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996.
Representative Historical Consulting Projects:
Consultant and On-Air Commentator, “Race for the Superbomb,” PBS and Learning Channel documentary, air date January 11, 1999.
Senior Series Consultant (with John Lewis Gaddis and Lawrence Freedman) on CNN--Jeremy Isaacs Productions “Cold War,” a 24-hour documentary series, September 1995 – December 1998.
Consultant and on-air commentator for CNN's “Cold War Postscript,” appearing on 21 out of 24 half-hour episodes from September 1998 until April 1999, hosted by Ralph Begleiter.
Consultant and on-air commentator, “The Marshall Plan,” a PBS documentary, air date June 4, 1998.
Consultant and On-Air Commentator, “Turning Points of History: The Man in the Mask” (on Igor Guzenko’s spy scandal in Canada and the United States in 1945-1946), Barna-Alper Productions Inc./Connections Resources Productions Inc., Canada, air date January 27, 1997.
On-Air Commentator, “Debating the Issues,” one of five half-hour discussion programs complementing the PBS documentary series “Messengers from Moscow” featuring U.S. leading U.S. specialists on the Cold War, 1996.
Consultant, “Peter Jennings Reporting: Hiroshima. Why The Bomb Was Dropped,” ABC/Washington Media Associates, Inc, air date July 27, 1995.
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