A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev - Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich) (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
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.
Reprint. Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991.; Cold War