Vojtech Mastny (born Vojtěch Mastný in 1936 in

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) is an American historian of Czech descent, professor of

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and

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, specializing in the history of the Cold War. He has been considered one of the leading American authorities on Soviet affairs. Mastny received his

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from

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and has been professor of history and international relations at Columbia,

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and the

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, as well as professor of strategy at

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, Fulbright professor at the

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, senior research scholar at the

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and senior fellow at the National Security Archive. He is the coordinator of the

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. In 1996-1998 he was the first researcher awarded Manfred Wörner Fellowship by

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. Mastny's books include ''Continental Europe under Nazi Rule'', which won him the Clarke F. Ansley award in 1971, ''Russia's Road to the Cold War'' (1979), ''The Helsinki Process and the Reintegration of Europe'' (1992) and ''The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years'', which won the

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's 1997 George L. Beer Prize.

Selected bibliography

* ''The Czechs Under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National Resistance 1939-1942.'' Columbia University Press, 1971.
''Russia's Road to the Cold War''
(1979) * ''The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: the Stalin years'' (1996) * * ''A Cardboard Castle and inside History of the Warsaw pact 1955-1991 ''

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