Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: Russian and Soviet Pasts Chapter 2 Russian Crisis Management and the First World War Chapter 3 Nuclear Weapons and Soviet Military Strategy in the Cold War Chapter 4 The 1983 War Scare: Cold War Misperception and Nuclear Risk Part 5 Part II: Russian Present and Future Chapter 6 Russia, Nuclear Weapons, and Armed Persuasion Chapter 7 Information War and Nuclear Coercion in Russia Chapter 8 Russia, Small Wars, and Armed Persuasion Chapter 9 Conclusion

About the Author

Stephen J. Cimbala is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University.