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A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev

Title
A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev / Vladislav M. Zubok ; with a new preface by the author.
Author
Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Description
xxx, 467 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The new Cold War history
Uniform Title
New Cold War history.
Subject
  • Cold War
  • Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985
  • Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991
  • Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1945-1991
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-453) and index.
Contents
The Soviet people and Stalin between war and peace, 1945 -- Stalin's road to the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- Stalemate in Germany, 1945-1953 -- Kremlin politics and "peaceful coexistence," 1953-1957 -- The nuclear education of Khrushchev, 1953-1963 -- The Soviet home front : first cracks, 1953-1968 -- Brezhnev and the road to détente, 1965-1972 -- Détente's decline and Soviet overreach, 1973-1979 -- The old Guard's exit, 1980-1987 -- Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988-1991.
ISBN
  • 9780807859582
  • 0807859583
LCCN
99936501035
OCLC
  • ocn261173705
  • 261173705
  • SCSB-5485592
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries