(A Failed Empire): The Soviet Union in The Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev - Rilegato

Zubok, Vladislav M.

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ISBN 10: 0807830984 ISBN 13: 9780807830987

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century.

Using recently declassified Politburo records, ciphered telegrams, diaries, and taped conversations, among other sources, Zubok explores the origins of the superpowers' confrontation under Stalin, Khrushchev's contradictory and counterproductive attempts to ease tensions, the surprising story of Brezhnev's passion for detente, and Gorbachev's destruction of the Soviet superpower as the by-product of his hasty steps to end the Cold War and to reform the Soviet Union. The first work in English to cover the entire Cold War from the Soviet side, A Failed Empire provides a history different from those written by the Western victors.

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Book by Zubok Vladislav M

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• Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0807830984
• ISBN 13: 9780807830987
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 467