A failed empire
Subtitle: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
Edition: [New] ed. / with a new preface by the author.
Series: The new Cold War history; New Cold War history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780807859582
Subjects: Politics and government; Cold War; Foreign relations
Description: Using recently declassified Politburo records, ciphered telegrams, diaries & taped conversations, Zubok explores the origins of the superpowers' confrontation under Stalin, Khrushchev's contradictory & counter-productive attempts to ease tensions, & Brezhnev's passion for de tente.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.