Based on recently released documents Buhite focuses on those parts of Asia that became objects of Soviet-American competition. He portrays the Soviet Union as an aggressive and expansionist power whose aspirations included not only control of the Kuril and Sakhalin islands but also domination or hegemony in Mongolia, Sinkiang, Manchuria, Korea and Japan and eventual expulsion of the West from Southeast Asia. Buhite believes that the United States...