Inside the Kremlin's cold war : from Stalin to Khrushchev

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Title:

Inside the Kremlin's cold war : from Stalin to Khrushchev

Author:

Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)

ISBN:

9780674455313

9780674455320

Personal Author:

Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.

Physical Description:

xv, 346 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Prologue: The View from the Kremlin, 1945 -- 1. Stalin: Revolutionary Potentate -- 2. Stalin and Shattered Peace -- 3. Molotov: Expanding the Borders --4. Zhdanov and the Origins of the Easter Bloc -- 5. Beria and Malenkov: Learning to Love the Bomb -- 6. The Education of Nikita Khrushchev -- 7. Khrushchev and the Sino-Soviet Schism -- 8. Khrushchev and Kennedy: The Taming of the Cold War -- Postmortem: Empire without Heroes.

Subject Term:

Cold War.

Geographic Term:

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1991.

Added Author:

Pleshakov, Konstantin.

Electronic Access:

Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b2p6-aa

Copies:

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Summary

During the peak years of the Cold War, when the inscrutability of the Kremlin's agenda left many Western observers fearing imminent nuclear war, Americans could only speculate about what Soviet leaders might be thinking and planning. What were the Soviet's true intentions? Did they have a comprehensive strategy in their confrontation with the West? Was there a Communist blueprint for every action, or were they engaging in the same cautious realpolitik that leaders in the West practised as well?