I was glad to contribute to the roundtable on Mark Kramer’s excellent book. Perhaps the most interesting part was the news that Kramer will publish *next year* a three-volume series on the Soviet bloc, which promises to set a new standard and should be on everyone’s reading list
Michael De Groot
Jervis Forum Roundtable 17-41 on Kramer, The Fate of the Soviet Bloc’s Military Alliance
The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 marked the formal end of the Soviet Bloc’s principal military alliance and closed a central institutional chapter of the Cold War in Europe. Yet the alliance’s rapid…
The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1991 marked the formal end of the Soviet Bloc’s principal military alliance and closed a central institutional chapter of the Cold War in Europe. Yet the alliance’s rapid unraveling in the late 1980s and ultimate disappearance has often occupied the margins of accounts of the Cold War’s end, overshadowed by more familiar developments such as the upheavals of 1989, German unification, and the collapse of the Soviet Union itself.
