A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev /
Zubok, V. M.
A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev / Vladislav M. Zubok. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �2009. - xxx, 467 pages : illustrations. - The new Cold War history . - New Cold War history. .
Reprint. Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 detente, 1965-1972 -- Detente's decline and Soviet overreach, 1973-1979 -- The old Guard's exit, 1980-1987 -- Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988-1991.
9780807830987 0807830984 9780807859582 0807859583
Cold War.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.
DK 274 / .Z836 2009
A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev / Vladislav M. Zubok. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �2009. - xxx, 467 pages : illustrations. - The new Cold War history . - New Cold War history. .
Reprint. Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 detente, 1965-1972 -- Detente's decline and Soviet overreach, 1973-1979 -- The old Guard's exit, 1980-1987 -- Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988-1991.
9780807830987 0807830984 9780807859582 0807859583
Cold War.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.
DK 274 / .Z836 2009