I am most interested in material that is (or tries to be) mostly objective and informative, and I would like to start with generalized works (this is a relatively new area of interest for me), but I'm willing to give my time to anything that comes highly recommended.
Thanks in advance!
Both my suggestions are fairly limited in scope, but they are worth reading.
--The Dead Hand, by David Hoffman.
Mostly focused on the end of the cold war, but it has an interesting perspective in the way the Star Wars program created a whole raft of problems for the US/USSR relationship, and may have contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. My summary might be a bit off--it's been a while since I've read it--but I do remember really enjoying it.
--Sword and Shield by Andrew and Mitrohkin.
A history of the KGB, compiled from documents smuggled out of the USSR by a defecting Mitrohkin. Is laser-focused on the KGB, less on the context of the Cold War in general...but seeing as KGB/CIA were essentially the "front lines" of the cold war, I figured it might be something you'd be interested in.