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

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Series:New Cold War history.
Subjects:
1945-1991
Cold War.
Guerre froide.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government
Koude Oorlog.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1945-1991.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1985.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1985-1991.
URSS > Relations extérieures > 1945-1991.
Soviet Union.
Sovjet-Unie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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