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100 1 _aZubok, V. M.
_q(Vladislav Martinovich)
_1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwX4VV3rBWvRw7RGc9VYP
245 1 0 _aInside the Kremlin's cold war :
_bfrom Stalin to Khrushchev /
_cVladislav Zubok, Constantine Pleshakov.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c1996.
300 _axv, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-338) and index.
505 0 _aStalin: Revolutionary potentate -- Stalin and shattered peace -- Molotov: Expanding the borders -- Zhdanov and the origins of the eastern bloc -- Beria and Malenkov: Learning to love the bomb -- The education of Nikita Khrushchev -- Khrushchev and Kennedy: The taming of the Cold War -- Postmortem: Empire without heroes.
520 _aUsing recently uncovered archival materials, personal interviews, and a broad familiarity with Russian history and culture, two young Russian historians have written a major interpretation of the Cold War as seen from the Soviet shore. Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin, who was driven by the dual dream of a Communist revolution and a global empire. They reveal the scope and limits of Stalin's ambitions by taking us into the world of his closest subordinates, the ruthless and unimaginative foreign minister Molotov and the Party's chief propagandist, Zhdanov, a man brimming with hubris and missionary zeal. The authors expose the machinations of the much-feared secret police chief Beria and the party cadre manager Malenkov, who tried but failed to set Soviet policies on a different course after Stalin's death. Finally, they document the motives and actions of the self-made and self-confident Nikita Khrushchev, full of Russian pride and party dogma, who overturned many of Stalin's policies with bold strategizing on a global scale. The authors show how, despite such attempts to change Soviet diplomacy, Stalin's legacy continued to divide Germany and Europe, and led the Soviets to the split with Maoist China and to the Cuban missile crisis. Zubok and Pleshakov's groundbreaking work reveals how Soviet statesmen conceived and conducted their rivalry with the West within the context of their own domestic and global concerns and aspirations. The authors persuasively demonstrate that the Soviet leaders did not seek a conflict with the United States, yet failed to prevent it or bring it to conclusion. They also document why and how Kremlin policy-makers, cautious and scheming as they were, triggered the gravest crises of the Cold War in Korea, Berlin, and Cuba. -- Publisher description.
586 _aLionel Gelber Prize for Best Book in International Relations, 1996.
647 7 _2fast
_1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbvhYhcM6fy9r83JBX
648 7 _a1945-1991
_2fast
650 0 _aCold War.
650 7 _aDiplomatic relations
_2fast
650 7 _aPOLITICAL CONDITIONS.
_2unbist
650 7 _aFOREIGN POLICY.
_2unbist
650 7 _aPOLITICAL HISTORY.
_2unbist
700 1 _aPleshakov, Konstantin.
758 _ihas work:
_aInside the Kremlin's cold war (Text)
_1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGCTJtXXRHpmhtV4wYmKMK
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aZubok, V.M. (Vladislav Martinovich).
_tInside the Kremlin's cold war.
_dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996
_w(OCoLC)605178986
856 4 1 _zAvailable from ACLS Humanities
_uhttp://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.05461
_zRutgers restricted
856 4 2 _3Book review (H-Net)
_uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b2p6-aa
856 4 1 _zElectronic access restricted; authentication may be required:
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