Here are some further reading suggestions, covering a range of interpretations:
Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary (2006)
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War (1982)
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2006)