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On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick (review)

but in a calibrated manner. This more nuanced Kissinger, who has populated recent pioneering work from Jussi Hanhimäki, Jeremi Suri, Barbara Keys, and Roham Alvandi, is substantially more compatible with a set of global dislocations that were vastly more “upheaval” than “renewal.” In a testament to the equipoise of Sargent’s book, the two shepherd moons that have tended to bound 1970s scholarship—the rise of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which brought home the reality of an interdependent world, and the rapid ascent of transnational human rights concerns—are not given exaggerated weight. The flagship chapter, “Managing Interdependence,” a detailed analysis of mid-1970s globalism, encompassing the insurgency of the New International Economic Order and the dawning appreciation of the depth of shared planetary problems residing outside Cold War politics, has no direct peer in current scholarship. Around 1974, Sargent observes, “the sources of international danger and instability” were seemingly “shifting from Cold War geopolitics to the challenges of a globalizing world” (p. 186). Although the transient and frightening reassertion of the Cold War occluded this new arrangement for half a decade, Ford and Kissinger and later Carter and Brzezinski began to resolve, if only hazily, the transformative shifts that defined the future—even if they had little success in controlling them. This is an exceptionally thorough and eloquent history, of relevance not merely to historians of U.S. foreign relations but to scholars of international history, human rights, and globalization. The book maps the foundational moment when the contours of the 21st century came into being at a staccato, haphazard cadence. The sheer difficulty of assessing this reordering of the world, which was largely bereft of design and dominated by contingency and accident, is daunting. Sargent’s contribution, though perhaps not revolutionary in its analysis, will be a lodestar for future treatments of the period.