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Author:

Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)

Title:

A failed empire : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev / Vladislav M. Zubok ; with a new preface by the author.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxx, 467 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Subject:

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.
Cold War.

Notes:

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.

Series:

The new Cold War history.

ISBN:

0807830984 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807830987 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807859583
9780807859582

Locations:

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)