Uses of History

Alexander Dallin (1924–2000) was director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University. Gail W. Lapidus is senior fellow emerita at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and Emerita Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Chapter 1: Alexander Dallin: A Singular VoicePart I: Studying the Soviet SystemChapter 2: Bias and Blunders in American Studies on the USSRChapter 3: The Uses and Abuses of Russian HistoryPart II: The Soviet Union in World War IIChapter 4: Stalin and the German InvasionChapter 5: The Soviet Reaction to VlasovChapter 6: The Baltic States between Nazi Germany and Soviet RussiaPart III: The Linkage of Domestic and Foreign PolicyChapter 7: The Domestic Sources of Soviet Foreign PolicyChapter 8: Reagan and the Russians: American Policy Toward the Soviet UnionChapter 9: New Thinking in Soviet Foreign PolicyPart IV: Soviet Politics and the End of the USSRChapter 10: Causes of the Collapse of the USSRChapter 11: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Through his brilliant work on the Soviet Union during the Second World War and his penetrating interpretations of the Soviet system and its place in world politics, Alex Dallin exercised a profound influence on generations of scholars. His research remains important not only for the substance of his analyses but also for the thoughtful and probing intelligence he brought to the issue of how to study the Soviet Union. It is very good to have these examples of his writing available together in this book.