Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev Paperback - 1997
by Vladislav Zubok; Constantine Pleshakov
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Using 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 thatthe 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.
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- Title Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev
- Author Vladislav Zubok; Constantine Pleshakov
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 382
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date April 25, 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780674455320 / 0674455320
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.19 x 6.13 x 1.01 in (23.34 x 15.57 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Cold War, Soviet Union - Foreign relations - 1945-1991
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95026457
- Dewey Decimal Code 327.47
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Citations
- New York Times, 08/03/1997, Page 24
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