Given the steady output of scholarly studies on the origins of the Cold War over the past seven decades, one might legitimately wonder whether there is room for substantially new contributions on the topic. Between Containment and Rollback demonstrates that the opportunity still exists. For nearly a quarter of a century, Christian Ostermann has been the guiding force behind the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) under the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Untold numbers of scholars, of whom I am one, have benefitted from this program. It is hard to imagine how anyone could conduct serious scholarship on the Cold War without turning to the CWIHP's enormous archives of previously unreleased documents from all sides in the conflict. In this new book, Ostermann has drawn on these holdings himself, as well as the archives of other repositories, such as the U.S. Library of Congress and the U.S. Department...

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