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Armageddon averted
Stephen Kotkin · 初版 2001 年
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“在主导二十世纪下半叶的冷战时期，没有人预料到苏联的崩溃会源自内部，更想不到它会以温和的方式发生，没有引发全球性的战火。在这本篇幅精炼的书中，Stephen Kotkin 指出，苏联的崩溃并非源于军事竞争，而是讽刺性地源于共产主义意识形态的活力，源自对‘具有人道面貌的社会主义’的长久梦想。后苏联时期的俄罗斯从未发生过新自由主义改革，鉴于苏联时代在社会、政治和经济
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……有几本书解释了这个，并且包含大量第一手文献来佐证我的观点。欢迎随时发邮件到我个人资料里的地址。我觉得你可能会很喜欢 Kotkin 写的《Armageddon Averted》。它对那个时代的描写读起来非常过瘾，而且相当巧妙地回应了你的论点。
…some books that explain this, and include abundant primary source documentation of my claims. Please feel free to email me at my address as listed in my profile. I think you might really enjoy a copy of Armageddon Averted by Kotkin. It is a very enjoyable account of this era, and it quite deftly addresses your contention.
Kotkin（就是最近在《纽约客》专访广为流传、写斯大林传记那位）写了《Armageddon Averted》——一本有趣且相当简明的总结。
Kotkin (of the New Yorker interview recently making the rounds, the Stalin bio, etc) wrote Armageddon Averted - one interesting and fairly brief summary.
Kotkin 写的《Armageddon Averted》是一部短小精悍、读起来很有趣的纠偏之作。竞争、低效以及自身国力投射的需求固然是沉重的负担，但远未到走向毁灭或万劫不复的地步。
A short and fun to read corrective is Kotkin's Armageddon Averted. The competition, inefficiency and the demands of its own power projections were a costly strain but nowhere close to leading to ruin or an irrecoverable state.