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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.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xvi, 467 p. : ill. ; 25 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)

LCCN:

2007011439

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)