A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev / Vladislav M. Zubok
| Author(s): | Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich) |
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| Subjects: | Cold War Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985 Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991 Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991 |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007 |
| Series: | new Cold War history |
| LC Classification: | D, DK |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2007011439 ISBN: 9780807830987 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 0807830984 (cloth : alk. paper) 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 |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 467 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 86090559 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780807830987 0807830984 |