[inaudible conversations] my name is Mark Harrison and its my pleasure to introduce Robert Service to you. Robert is going to tell us about his new book, the end of the cold war. The book will be published by Public Affairs and by great britain. He is among the worlds historians and rush and author of viagra please of lenin and trotsky. He discovered america in the year 2004. Ever since then he has been delving in the records held by the Hoover Institution. All of their research that Robert Service has done is done in the archives. He took part in the annual Hoover Institution totalitarian regimes directed by hoover fellow gregory. The scholarly audience presentations on the keynote events of the workshop program. Robert service will now address us on the end of the cold war. [applause] thank you very much mark for that very generous introduction. What i want to talk about today is the subject of my new book, which is about a war that never became a war. Its about the cold war rather t
All around the earth. It really was a truly dangerous phenomenon, the cold war. There have been many cold wars in history. The british and the french were in cold war most of the centuries back to the Norman Conquest if they engaged in many hot wars with each other, but the cold war, the war that we know as the cold war, that was the most dangerous war of all. And thank god it never became a hot war. There were wars between the principal allies of the principal agents of the cold war, namely the soviet union and the United States of america. There were wars in many states of africa between allies of one side and allies of the other side, but america and the ussr never went to war with each other. Even though it came very close to that at times. For example, in 1962 and again in 1983. The accounts for the end of the cold war tend to be onesided, tend to concentrate either predominantly on the american side, or predominantly on the soviet side. And the reason i thought it was worth writi
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