(A failed empire) : the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev /
Zubok, V. M.(Vladislav Martinovich)
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-453) and index.
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.
Cold War.