TY - BOOK AU - Zubok,V.M. TI - A failed empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev SN - 9780807859582 (pbk: alk. paper) AV - 338 DK 274 Z93f 2007 U1 - 947.085 PY - 2009/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Cold War KW - Soviet Union KW - Politics and government KW - 1953-1985 KW - 1985-1991 KW - Foreign relations KW - 1945-1991 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-453) and index; 1. The; Soviet people and Stalin between war and peace, 1945 --; 2; Stalin's road to the Cold War, 1945-1948 --; 3; Stalemate in Germany, 1945-1953 --; 4; Kremlin politics and "peaceful coexistence," 1953-1957 --; 5. The; nuclear education of Khrushchev, 1953-1963 --; 6. The; Soviet home front : first cracks, 1953-1968 --; 7; Brezhnev and the road to dâetente, 1965-1972 --; 8; Dâetente's decline and Soviet overreach, 1973-1979 --; 9. The; old Guard's exit, 1980-1987 --; 10; Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988-1991 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011439.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007011439-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007011439-d.html ER -