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Author Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)

Title A failed empire [electronic resource] : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev / Vladislav M. Zubok.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 467 p. : ill.
Series The new Cold War history
New Cold War history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-453) and index.
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 detente, 1965-1972 -- 8. Detente'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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cold War.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807830987 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807830984 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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