Learning from History? from Soviet Collapse to the ‘New' Cold War

Many moments in what we now rather lamely call the ‘end of the ColdWar’ have been examined in detail. However, within the extraordinarily rich literature that has arisen over the past 25 years, little attention has been paid thus far to one very important problem: the part played by ‘history’ in shaping the way different actors tried to make sense of what was going on around them in a time of rapid transition.