Zubok, V. M. <br/><br/>
A failed empire :  the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev / 
Vladislav M. Zubok. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  c2009. 
 - xvi, 467 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
 - The new Cold War history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-453) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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 --  nuclear education of Khrushchev, 1953-1963 --  Soviet home front : first cracks, 1953-1968 --  Brezhnev and the road to dâetente, 1965-1972 --  Dâetente's decline and Soviet overreach, 1973-1979 --  old Guard's exit, 1980-1987 --  Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988-1991.  1. The  2.  3.  4.  5. The  6. The  7.  8.  9. The  10. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807859582 (pbk: alk. paper) 0807830984 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007011439 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cold War.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.<br/>Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.<br/>Soviet Union--Foreign relations--1945-1991.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>338 DK 274  / Z93f 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>947.085