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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Series:New Cold War history.
Subjects:
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1945-1991.
Cold War.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of 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.