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Winner of the 2001 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
"Gregory Mitrovich makes a good case that aggressive covert attempts to weaken the Soviet system were a more significant and integrated part of high-level U.S. thinking than has generally been recognized. In the process he has produced a wealth of new research on key individuals, important policy debates, and incessant bureaucratic battles, which will be useful for anyone studying this critical period of the Cold War."--Journal of Cold War Studies
"This is a very important book on the early Cold War and Western strategy, which challenges some of the standard assumptions and provokes many more interpretative questions. . . . The fact that the book reveals so much about American offensive strategy makes it extremely important for those interested in reinterpreting the Cold War. We now know that it was the basic objective of U.S. policy makers from as early as 1948 to destroy Soviet power, not merely to contain it."--Millennium: Journal of International Studies
"While the official U.S. position was, from early in the Cold War, the `containment' of Soviet ambitions, Mitrovich argues that this was generally a public mask for plans that countenanced offensive as well as defensive action. . . . Undermining the Kremlin is a very fine book. Historians of Cold War diplomacy, policy analysts, political scientists, and others interested in institutional politics and bureaucratic infighting will find much to digest here."--Journal of Conflict Studies
"Undermining the Kremlin is a stimulating and eye-opening account of American grand strategy--especially `psychological warfare'--during the Truman and early Eisenhower years."--Marc Trachtenberg, University of Pennsylvani
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About the Author
Gregory Mitrovich is a Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University.
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