Title: A failed empire
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Cold War, Foreign relations, Soviet union, politics and government, 1945-1991, Soviet union, foreign relations, 1945-1991, Cold war
Places: Soviet Union
Time periods: 1945-1991, 1953-1985, 1985-1991