TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zubok,V.M.
TI  - A failed empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev 
T2  - The new Cold War history
SN  - 9780807830987
AV  - DK 274 .Z836 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1953-1985
KW  - 1985-1991
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1945-1991
N1  - 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
ER  -