Bibliography of the Cold War

Cold War European Military Alliances

This is an English language bibliography of scholarly books and articles on the Cold War . Because of the extent of the Cold War (in terms of time and scope), the conflict is well documented.

The Cold War (Russian : холо́дная война́, holodnaya voĭna) was the global situation from around 1947 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and propaganda campaigns between the Communist World — primarily the Soviet Union and China and their satellite states and allies — and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its NATO allies.

Overviews

• Ball, S. J. The Cold War: An International History, 1947–1991 (1998), British perspective; short summary
• Boyle Peter G. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism. 1993.
• The Cambridge History of the Cold War (3 vol. 2010) online Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  • Leffler, Melvyn P. and Odd Arne Westad, eds. The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 1, Origins (2015) 23 essays by leading scholars. excerpt
• 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)
• 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   0-8157-3041-1. online free to borrow
• Hoffman, David E. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (2010)
• House, Jonathan. A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962 (2012) excerpt and text search
• Immerman, Richard H. and Petra Goedde, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War (2013) excerpt
• LaFeber, Walter (2002). America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2002. McGraw-Hill. ISBN   0-07-284903-7.
• Leffler, Melvyn (1992). A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. Stanford University Press. ISBN   0-8047-2218-8.
• 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   1-4129-0748-9.
• Lüthi, Lorenz M (2008). The Sino-Soviet split: Cold War in the communist world. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-13590-8.
• McMahon, Robert (2003). The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-280178-3.
• 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   0-7146-8371-X.
• Muschik, Alexander. Headed towards the West: Swedish Neutrality and the German Question, 1945–1972, in: Contemporary European History, 15, 4 (2006), pp. 519–538.

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   0-300-11204-1.
• 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   0-393-32484-2.; 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   978-0-7425-5542-6.
• 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

USSR

• Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century (1989)
• Catchpole, Brian. A Map History of Russia (1974), pp 79–117
• Edmonds, Robin. Soviet Foreign Policy: The Brezhnev Years (1983)
• Frankel, Benjamin. The Cold War 1945–1991. Vol. 2, Leaders and other important figures in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and the Third World (1992), 379pp of biographies.
• Friedman, Jeremy. Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World (2015)
• Gilbert, Martin. Routledge Atlas of Russian History (4th ed. 2007) excerpt and text search
• 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)
• Harrison, Hope Millard (2003). Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961. Princeton University Press. ISBN   0-691-09678-3.
• 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 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)

United States

• 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)
• Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War civil rights: Race and the image of American democracy (Princeton UP, 2011).
• Fernlund, Kevin Jon, ed. The Cold War American West, 1945-1989. University of New Mexico Press, 1998. 222 pp.
• Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982)
• Gaddis, John Lewis. George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011).
• 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)
• Offner, Arnold A. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 . Stanford UP, 2002).
• Paterson, Thomas G. Meeting the Communist Threat: Truman to Reagan (1988), liberal interpretation
• Roark, James L. "American Black Leaders: The Response to Colonialism and the Cold War, 1943–1953." African Historical Studies 4.2 (1971): 253–270.

Britain

• Anderson Terry H. The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944–1947. (1981)
• Bullock, Alan. Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945–1951. 1983; he set British policy
• Clarke, Bob. Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War (2005)
• Clarke, Bob. Britain's Cold War: The Dangerous Decades An Illustrated History (2014) 128pp
• 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. in JSTOR
• Keeble, Curtis. Britain and the Soviet Union, 1917-89 (1990).
• Northedge, F.S. Descent From Power British Foreign Policy 1945-1973 (1974) online
• Taylor, Peter J. Britain and the Cold War: 1945 as geopolitical transition (1993).
• Young, John W. Winston Churchill's Last Campaign: Britain and the Cold War, 1951-5 Clarendon Press, 1996

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
• Crace, Sylvia E. and John O. Crane. Czechoslovakia: Anvil of the Cold War, 1991
• Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, (2005)
• Lewkowicz, Nicolas (2018) The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, Anthem Press, London
• Lewkowicz, Nicolas (2018), The Role of Ideology in the Origins of the Cold War, Scholar's Press, ISBN   978-620-2-31726-9
• Lewkowicz, Nicolas (2010), The German Question and the International Order,1943-48, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN   978-0-230-24812-0
• Lewkowicz, Nicolas (2008), The German Question and the Origins of the Cold War, IPOC, ISBN   978-88-95145-27-3
• 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)
• Sarotte, M.E. Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente & Ostpolitik, 1969-73 The University of North Carolina Press, (2001)
• Soutou, Georges-Henri. "France and the Cold War, 1944–63." Diplomacy & Statecraft. (2001) 12#4 pp 3–52.
• Turner, Henry Ashby. Germany from Partition to Reunification (1992)
• Wall, Irwin. "France in the Cold War" Journal of European Studies (2008) 38#2 pp 121–139.

Latin America

• Alegre, Robert F. Railroad radicals in Cold War Mexico: Gender, class, and memory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013
• Berger, Mark T.,Under Northern eyes: Latin American studies and U.S. hegemony in the Americas, 1898-1990. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
• Brands, Hal, Latin America's Cold War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.
• Cohn, Deborah N., The Latin American literary boom and U.S. nationalism during the Cold War. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.
• Crandall, Russell, The United States and Latin America after the Cold War. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Darnton, Christopher Neil, Rivalry and alliance politics in cold war Latin America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
• Esparza, Marcia, et al., eds. State violence and genocide in Latin America : the Cold War years. London; New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Fox, Claire F. Making Art Panamerican : Cultural Policy and the Cold War. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013
• Grandin, Greg, The last colonial massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• Grow, Michael. U.S. presidents and Latin American interventions: Pursuing regime change in the Cold War. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2008.
• Harmer, Tanya. Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
• Iber, Patrick, Neither peace nor freedom: The cultural Cold War in Latin America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2015.
• Joseph, Gilbert M., et al. eds. Close encounters of empire: writing the cultural history of U.S.-Latin American relations. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998.
• Joseph, Gilbert M. and Daniela Spenser. In from the cold : Latin America's new encounter with the Cold War. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
• Klein, Herbert & Luna, Francisco. Brazil, 1964-1985: The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes). Yale University Press, 2017.
• McSherry, J. Patrice. Predatory states: Operation Condor and covert war in Latin America. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005.
• Pettinà, Vanni. A Compact History of Latin America’s Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) See reviews by 5 scholars and reply by Pettina online
• Pettinà, Vanni. "The shadows of Cold War over Latin America: the US reaction to Fidel Castro's nationalism, 1956–59." Cold War History 11.3 (2011): 317–339.
• Rabe, Stephen G. The killing zone: The United States wages Cold War in Latin America. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Schmidli, William Michael, The fate of freedom elsewhere: human rights and U.S. Cold War policy toward Argentina. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
• Stites, Jessica, ed. Human rights and transnational solidarity in Cold War Latin America. Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.

Asia and Pacific

Further information: Cold War in Asia § Further reading

• Goscha, Christopher E. & Ostermann, Christian F. (eds.), Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962. (Woodrow Wilson Center Press & Stanford University Press, 2009).
• Hara, Kimie. Cold War frontiers in the Asia-Pacific: divided territories in the San Francisco system (Routledge, 2006).
• Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991 (2011)
• Lee, Steven Hugh. Outposts of Empire: Korea, Vietnam, and the Origins of the Cold War in Asia, 1949-1954 (McGill-Queen's University Press; 1996).
• Li, Xiaobing. The Cold War in East Asia (2017) excerpt, textbook
• Lüthi, Lorenz. The Regional Cold Wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East: Crucial Periods and Turning Points (2015).
• Nagai, Yonosuke, and Akira Iriye, eds. The Origins of the Cold War in Asia (1977).
• Robb, Thomas K., and David James Gill. "The ANZUS Treaty during the Cold War: a reinterpretation of US diplomacy in the Southwest Pacific." Journal of Cold War Studies 17.4 (2015): 109–157.
• Sanders, Vivienne. The Cold War in Asia 1945-93 (2015), textbook
• 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, 2010).

India

• Chaudhuri, Rudra. Forged in crisis: India and the United States since 1947 (Oxford UP, 2014).
• Donaldson, Robert H. "The Soviet Union in South Asia: A Friend To Rely On?" Journal of International Affairs (1981) 34#2 pp 235–58
• Duncan, Peter J. S. The Soviet Union and India (1989)
• Harder, Anton. "Defining independence in Cold War Asia: Sino-Indian relations, 1949–1962." (PhD Diss. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 2015.) online
• Horn, Robert C. Soviet-Indian Relations (1982)
• Mastny, Vojtech. "The Soviet Union's Partnership with India." Journal of Cold War Studies (2010) 12#3 pp 50–90.
• Pandey, Sanjay Kumar, and Ankur Yadav. "Contextualizing India–Russia Relations." International Studies 53.3-4 (2016): 227–257.
• Thakur, Ramesh and Carlyle A. Thayer, eds. Soviet Relations with India and Vietnam, 1945–1992 (1992).
• Touhey, Ryan. Conflicting Visions: Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946–76. (UBC Press, 2015).

China and Taiwan

• Brazinsky, Gregg A. Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War (U of North Carolina Press, 2017); four online reviews & author response
• Fardella, Enrico. "A significant periphery of the Cold War: Italy-China bilateral relations, 1949–1989." Cold War History 17.2 (2017): 181–197.
• Frankel, Benjamin. The Cold War 1945–1991. Vol. 2, Leaders and other important figures in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and the Third World (1992), 379pp of biographies.
• Friedman, Jeremy. Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World (2015). online
• Goncharov, Sergei, John Lewis and Litai Xue, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War (1993)
• Jian, Chen. China's Road to the Korean War: Making of the Sino-American Confrontation (2004)
• Jian, Chen. Mao's China and the Cold War (2001)
• Kaufman, Victor S. Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China (2001) e]
• Lüthi, Lorenz M. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (2008)
• Mark, Chi-Kwan. China and the world since 1945: an international history (Routledge, 2011)
• Mehnert, Klaus. "Soviet-Chinese Relations." International Affairs 35.4 (1959): 417–426. online
• Olsen, Mari. Soviet-Vietnam Relations and the Role of China 1949-64: Changing Alliances (Routledge, 2007)
• Roberts, Priscilla. "New Perspectives on Cold War History from China," Diplomatic History 41:2 (April 2017) online
• Ross, Robert S. Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969–1989, (1995)
• Ross, Robert S., ed. China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War (1993)
• Scalapino, Robert A (1964). "Sino-Soviet Competition in Africa". Foreign Affairs. 42 (4): 640–654. doi:10.2307/20029719. JSTOR   20029719.
• Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (2011)
• Vogel, Ezra F. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (2011), full-scale biography
• Westad, Odd Arne, ed. Brothers in arms: the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1945-1963 (Stanford University Press, 1998)

Vietnam

• Lawrence, Mark Atwood and Fredrik Logevall, eds. The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis (2007)
• Lawrence, Mark Atwood, ed. The Vietnam War: An International History in Documents (2014)
• Roberts, Priscilla. Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the Cold War (2006)
• Smith, R.B. An International History of the Vietnam War(2 vol 1985)
• Zhai, Qiang. China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (2000)

Middle East

• Cohen, Michael J. "From ‘Cold’ to ‘Hot’ War: Allied Strategic and Military Interests in the Middle East after the Second World War." Middle Eastern Studies 43.5 (2007): 725–748.
• Jalal, Ayesha. "Towards the Baghdad Pact: South Asia and Middle East Defence in the Cold War, 1947–1955." International History Review 11.3 (1989): 409–433.
• Kuniholm, Bruce R. The origins of the Cold War in the Near East: Great power conflict and diplomacy in Iran, Turkey, and Greece (Princeton UP, 2014)
• Lüthi, Lorenz. The Regional Cold Wars in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East: Crucial Periods and Turning Points (2015)
• McGhee, George. The US-Turkish-NATO Middle East connection: How the Truman doctrine and Turkey's NATO entry contained the Soviets (Springer, 2016).
• McNabb, James Brian. A Military History of the Modern Middle East (ABC-CLIO, 2017).
• Patten, Howard A. Israel and the Cold War: Diplomacy, Strategy and the Policy of the Periphery at the United Nations (2013)
• Yesilbursa, Behcet Kemal. The Baghdad Pact: Anglo-American Defence Policies in the Middle East, 1950-59 (2003) excerpt.

Origins: to 1950

• Anderson Terry H. The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944–1947. (1981)
• Applebaum, Anne. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (2012) excerpt and text search
• 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)
• Gaddis, John Lewis. George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011)
• 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)
• House, Jonathan M. ‘’A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962’’ (University of Oklahoma Press; 2012) 546 pages; scholarly history with special attention to military commanders and political leaders
• Isaacson, Walter, and Evan 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), Russian and American perspectives
• 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)
• House, Jonathan M. A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962 (University of Oklahoma Press; 2012) 546 pages; scholarly history with special attention to military commanders and political leaders
• 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 (1994). Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN   0-8157-3041-1. online free to borrow
• Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger: A Biography (1992)
• Keefer, Edward C. Harold Brown: Offsetting the Soviet Military Challenge, 1977—1981 (Washington: Historical Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2017), xxii, 815 pp.), about Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)
• Kissinger, Henry. White House Years (1979) and Years of Upheaval (1982), memoirs
• Nixon, Richard. RN: Memoirs of Richard Nixon (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)
• Halliday, Fred. The Making of the Second Cold War (1983, Verso, London).
• 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
• Klimke, Martin Alexander, et al., eds. Trust, but Verify: The Politics of Uncertainty and the Transformation of the Cold War Order, 1969-1991 (Stanford University Press, 2016). xiv, 313 pp.
• Kotkin, Stephen. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000 (2001) ISBN   978-0-19-280245-3
• 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)
• Miles, S. Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War'. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (2020).
• 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   0-7146-5695-X (Hardback)
• David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, Vintage Books, 1994, ISBN   0-679-75125-4
• Wilson, James Graham (2014). The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-5229-1.

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/ Espionage

• 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).
• Ferris, John. "Coming in from the Cold War: the historiography of American intelligence, 1945–1990." Diplomatic History 19.1 (1995): 87–115. online
• 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).

Naval Aspects

• 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, religion, popular culture

• Andrews, James T. "Inculcating Materialist Minds: Scientific Propaganda and Anti-Religion in the USSR During the Cold War." in Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe. (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016) pp. 105–125.
• Barnhisel, Greg, and Catherine Turner, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War (2010) 312 pages.
• Belmonte, Laura A. Selling the American Way: US Propaganda and the Cold War (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
• 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.
• Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War civil rights: Race and the image of American democracy (2nd ed. Princeton UP, 2011), widely cited study..
• Gery, John. Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness. U. Press of Florida, 1996. 235 pp.
• Fainberg, Dina. Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines'. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
• 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.
• Kuznick, Peter J., and James Gilbert, eds. Rethinking Cold War Culture (Smithsonian Institution, 2013).
• 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, Rana; Patrick Major. 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. and Richard Jensen, eds. Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront (2005), vol 4: 1946 to Present
• Saunders, Frances Stonor. The cultural cold war: The CIA and the world of arts and letters (New Press, 2013).
• Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan. "The Olympics and the Cold War: A Historiography" Journal of Cold War Studies (Dec 2023), Vol.25, 127–158. doi: 10.1162/jcws_a_01173
• 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).
• Turner, Catherine. Pressing the fight: print, propaganda, and the Cold War (U of Massachusetts Press, 2012).
• 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   0-275-98549-0 Praeger
• Kirby, Dianne (Editor) Religion and the Cold War (2002) ISBN   0-333-99398-5 Palgrave Macmillan
• Inboden III, William Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945–1960: The Soul of Containment (2008) ISBN   0-521-51347-2 Cambridge University Press

Other works

• Wandycz, P. (2002). The Polish Political Emigration and the Origins of the Cold War. The Polish Review, 47(3), 317–324.

Historiography

• Anderson, Sheldon R. "Condemned to Repeat it:" lessons of History" and the Making of US Cold War Containment Policy (Lexington Books, 2008).
• Autio-Sarasmo, Sari. "A New Historiography of the Cold War?" European History Quarterly (2011) 41#4 pp 657–664, focus on Europe
• Borhi, László. "Rollback, liberation, containment, or inaction? US policy and eastern Europe in the 1950s." Journal of Cold War Studies 1.3 (1999): 67–110.
• Corke, Sarah-Jane. "History, historians and the Naming of Foreign Policy: A Postmodern Reflection on American Strategic thinking during the Truman Administration," Intelligence and National Security, Autumn 2001, Vol. 16 Issue 3, pp. 146–63.
• Dimić, Ljubodrag. "Historiography on the Cold War in Yugoslavia: from ideology to science." Cold War History 8.2 (2008): 285–297.
• Drew, S. Nelson, and Paul H. Nitze. NSC-68 forging the strategy of containment (iane Publishing, 1994).
• Duara, Prasenjit. "The Cold War as a historical period: an interpretive essay." Journal of Global History 6#3 (2011): 457–480. online
• Dülffer, Jost. "Cold War history in Germany." Cold War History 8.2 (2008): 135–156.
• 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
• 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).
• 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
• Garthoff, Raymond L. A journey through the Cold War: a memoir of containment and coexistence (Brookings Institution Press, 2004).
• Hogan, Michael J., ed. America in the World: The Historiography of US Foreign Relations since 1941 (1996), scholarly articles reprinted from the journal Diplomatic History
• Hopkins, Michael F. "Historiographical Reviews Continuing Debate And New Approaches In Cold War History" Historical Journal (2007) 50#4 pp 913–934.
• Hwang, Dongyoun. "The politics of China studies in South Korea: A critical examination of South Korean historiography of modern China since 1945" Journal of Modern Chinese History (2012) 6#2 pp 256–276
• Kaplan, Lawrence S. American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, (1991)
• Kort, Michael. The Columbia Guide to the Cold War (1998)
• Maier, Charles S. "Revisionism and the Interpretation of Cold War Origins," Perspectives in American History (1970), Vol. 4, pp 313–347
• Masur, Matthew, ed. Understanding and Teaching the Cold War (U of Wisconsin Press, 2017). xii, 364 pp.
• Matlock, Jack F. "The End of the Cold War" Harvard International Review, Vol. 23 (2001)
• Olesen, Thorsten B. "Under the national paradigm: Cold War studies and Cold War politics in post-Cold War Norden." Cold War History 8.2 (2008): 189–211.
• Olesen, Thorsten B.Ed. The Cold War and the Nordic Countries: Historiography at a Crossroads. Odense: U Southern Denmark Press, 2004. Pp. 194.
• Roberts, Priscilla. "New Perspectives on Cold War History from China," Diplomatic History 41:2 (April 2017) online
• Romero, Federico. "Cold War historiography at the crossroads." Cold War History (2014) 14#4 pp 685–703.
• Seniavskaia, Aleksandr S. and Elena Seniavskaia. "The Historical Memory of Twentieth-Century Wars as an Arena of Ideological, Political, and Psychological Confrontation." Russian Studies in History (2010), 49#1 pp 53–91.
• Suri, Jeremi. "Explaining the End of the Cold War: A New Historical Consensus?" Journal of Cold War Studies (2002) 4#4 pp. 60–92 in Project MUSE
• Trachtenberg, Marc. "The Marshall Plan as Tragedy." Journal of Cold War Studies 2005 7#1 pp 135–140. ISSN   1520-3972 Fulltext: in Project MUSE
• Ulam, Adam B. Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections (2002) excerpt
• Varsori, Antonio. "Cold War history in Italy." Cold War History 8.2 (2008): 157–187.
• Viola, L. (2002). The Cold War in American Soviet Historiography and the End of the Soviet Union. Russian Review, 61(1), 25–34.
• 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, Odd Arne. "The new international history of the Cold War: three (possible) paradigms." Diplomatic History 24.4 (2000): 551–565.
• 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, 1962 (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.
• Trefousse, Hans Louis, ed.The cold war: a book of documents (1965) online free to borrow
• "Cold War Archival Material". United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010. Retrieved June 10, 2010.
• "Digital Archive". Cold War International History Project . Retrieved April 29, 2013.

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);
• Djilas, Milovan. Conversations with Stalin. 1962, Yugoslav Communist 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)
• Pipes, Richard. Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger (2003).
• Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993)

See also

• Bibliography of Canadian military history
• Bibliography of United States military history
• Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
• Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union