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    From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
    From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
    From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
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    From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia

    Written by Michael McFaul

    Narrated by L.J. Ganser

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    In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships. As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as "reset" that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries. And then, as U.S. ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency. This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of U.S.-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president. From the first days of McFaul's ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family.

    From Cold War to Hot Peace is an essential account of the most consequential global confrontation of our time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJun 12, 2018
    ISBN9781684411559
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    Michael McFaul

    MICHAEL McFAUL is professor of political science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served for five years in the Obama administration, first at the White House as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council, then as U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation. Dr. McFaul is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to the Washington Post. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin. Dr. McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in international relations and Slavic languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European studies from Stanford University, then completed his D. Phil. in international relations at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

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    • 5/5
      Well-written detailed history of post-cold war Russia US relations, and enjoyable McFaul memoir.
    • 3/5
      I suppose you don't rise to the top of your profession as an academic/foreign policy expert without some level of talent for self-promotion, so I shouldn't have been terribly surprised that this book focuses almost as much on McFaul the person as McFaul the ambassador. In his defense, he is straightforward at the beginning of the book that what you are about to read is a blend of memoir and analysis, but I came away wishing I had gotten more of the latter than the former. Don't get me wrong, he's an interesting guy with an engaging narrative voice, but I really picked this book up to better understand the complicated American/Russian relationship, and I wound up feeling like this book didn't get me there.