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Red Sunset; A Cold Warrior explains his beginnings.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040104
Author:Reviewed by Fred Siegel

VIXI: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger

By Richard Pipes. Yale Univ. 264 pp. $30

More than any other individual in the Reagan administration, Richard Pipes was the intellectual architect of the American victory in the Cold War. Pipes, a historian of the Russian Revolution, supplied the conceptual framework to buttress President Reagan's intuitive hostility toward the Soviet Union.

Pipes describes himself by quoting Samuel Butler, who said, "I never write on any subject unless I believe the opinion of those who have the ear of the public to be mistaken." While most historians attributed the Bolshevik ...

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