The Cuban Missile Crisis
Assessment of New, and Old, Russian Sources
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4445016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sergey Radchenko (0000-0001-8934-1933, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-343 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0047117812451967 |
| OpenAlex | W2046330959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article reviews major issues in the historiography of the Russian/Soviet side of the Cuban missile crisis, as it has developed since the early 1990s. Focusing on key works, including Fursenko and Naftali's One Hell of a Gamble and Mikoyan's Anatomi'ia Karibskogo Krizisa, the article explores three issues: why Nikita Khrushchev decided to send missiles to Cuba, why he resolved to withdraw them, and how close the world came to 'the brink'. The author contends that in our understanding of the Kremlin's motivations in the Cuban missile crisis, we have come to over-rely on disparate pieces of 'evidence', which, at closer investigation, turn out to be one-sided, undocumented, or demonstrably false. The author therefore urges caution in drawing far-reaching conclusions from the crisis, especially in projecting its uncertain lessons onto the broader scholarship on the Soviet decision making during the Cold War
Cold war · Computer security · Historiography · Key (lock) · Missile · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Computer Science · Cuban History and Society · History · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |