A very comprehensive and insightful book on Soviet Union as well as Russia's foreign policy. People who are interested in the origin of Soviet foreign policy-making but not familiar with it in detail should read this book as a starter.
This book offers not only a well-ordered historic events sequence, but also an insight of how historic study of foreign policy could be integrated with theoretical explorations. I agree the author who emphasised the domestic factors of foreign policy-making were mutually embedded with the external conditions.
Therefore, people who are also interested in international theories might find a good illustration of combination of historic and theoretical approaches in this book.