War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Bio: Richard Edgar Pipes was a Polish-American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union, who espoused a strong anti-communist point of view throughout his career.
Known for:
Russia Under the Old Regime (1974)
Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime 1919-1924 (1993)
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (1995)