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

Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues the author. Explaining the interests, aspirations illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and the Soviet elites...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Colección:New Cold War history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Soviet people and Stalin between war and peace, 1945
  • 2. Stalin's road to the Cold War, 1945-1948
  • 3. Stalemate in Germany, 1945-1953
  • 4. Kremlin politics and "peaceful coexistence," 1953-1957
  • 5. The nuclear education of Khrushchev, 1953-1963
  • 6. The Soviet home front : first cracks, 1953-1968
  • 7. Brezhnev and the road to détente, 1965-1972
  • 8. Détente's decline and Soviet overreach, 1973-1979
  • 9. The old Guard's exit, 1980-1987
  • 10. Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988-1991.