The best description of this book comes from renowned US journalist Dave Lindorff:
Ron Ridenour, a veteran journalist and author, former member of the US Communist Party, dedicated anti-war activist and a self-described revolutionary socialist, like Trotsky (though no Troskyite himself) writes from a perspective of outside the city wall. In his latest book, The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert (Punto Press, New York, 2018), he does an admirable of job of it too, providing an abundance of readily accessible citations (hot-linked in the book's online version), instead of some coldly "objective" history. The Russian Peace Threat offers the perspective of someone passionately involved in combating American imperialism and this country's century-long hostility towards Russia and its revolution against capitalism. He documents how from the outset of the Russian revolution of 1917, when 13,000 US troops…