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that's why sparklight is working around the clock to keep you connected. we are doing our part so with little easier to do yours. >> sparklight along with these television companies supports c-span2 as a public service. >> hello, everyone. i'm stephen kotkin. i'm a senior fellow at the hoover institution on the stanford campus and amla also te director of the hoover history lab which iss the sponsor of today's book talk, sergey radchenko, "to run the world." for those of you who are historians you will know already, sergey is a prolific scholar of consequential history. he co-authored the atomic bomb, and the origins of the cold war. really important work in the archives showing the extent to which the atomic bomb was or was not leveraged in not just the origin of the cold war but in general the onset of great power relations by atomic powers. then he moved on to the sino-soviet split, to make sense in the heavens. if only. we then got unwanted visionaries. , a story of the failures of the soviet union and in post-soviet russia in east asia. the dreams or

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