The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3, Endings

His publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria ’ s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era and Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population . In fact, the conservative German philosopher Robert Spaemann claimed that the oil shock was, from the point of view of intellectual history, the most important event since the Second World War. Until Gorbachev ’ s reforms, Soviet domination of Eastern Europe had been internalized both in the East and in the West as an inescapable fact until some indeterminate future time. The book fi rst appeared in English in 1994 as Ten Years that Shook the World: The Gorbachev Era as Witnessed by His Chief of Sta ff (New York: Basic Books) and in a slightly longer version in Russian a year later: Krushenie p ’ edestala: shtrikhi k portretu M.