What Russia wants most of all is U.S. recognition 415q4x

The direction of the Cold War depended on more than the strategies of two superpowers. It also depended on psychological motivations — in particular, a desire for greatness on the part of Soviet leaders from Stalin to Gorbachev. The desire could never be satisfied, resulting in frustration and explaining why U.S. presidents’ personal behaviour toward Soviet and Russian leaders has caused outsized consequences for history, as Sergey Radchenko argues in the book that won this year’s Lionel Gelber Prize. 55k5k