A Failed Empire
The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Paperback Edition
By Vladislav M. Zubok
With a New Preface by the Author
504 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 illus, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-5958-2
Published: February 2009 -
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-9905-2
Published: February 2009
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Awards & distinctions
2008 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
A Washington Post Book World Best selection
About the Author
Vladislav M. Zubok is associate professor of history at Temple University. He is coauthor of Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin and Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev.
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"Fluently and authoritatively told."--International History Review
“[A Failed Empire] draw[s] on abundant new primary sources to refine our understanding of the Cold War, turning it from a melodrama into a nuanced tragedy. . . . Rich in new information and fresh interpretation. Zubok reveals the full extent of Stalin's brutal post-World War II suppression of the Soviet People.”--Washington Post Book World
“Make[s] use of significant new primary sources but also offer[s]a more inclusive approach with respect to the considerations shaping policy on both sides.”--American Historical Review
"Ranks as the new standard work on the Soviet Union's Cold War--for scholars and students alike. . . . An excellent combination of old and new, offering both a synthetic interpretation of Soviet foreign policy in the latter half of the twentieth century and fresh new material to reconceptualize the factors behind that policy. . . . An important book [and] a standout."--Journal of American History
"An excellent survey of Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War, one which draws on a wide range of memoirs, secondary literature, and the still-patchy archival record."--Russian Review
"Zubok has been prominent amongst those reassessing Soviet foreign policy through the newly available primary sources. . . . [A Failed Empire] extends the story to the end of the Cold War and provides an excellent overview of the whole period."--International Journal