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Author:	Constantine Pleshakov, V. M. Zubok	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Harvard Univ Pr	ISBN-10:	0674455312
Edition Description:	Illustrated	ISBN-13:	9780674455313
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	1996	Subject:	Political Science
Language:	English	Condition:	Acceptable

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Synopsis
A revisionist account of the Cold War, written from the Soviet perspective using recently uncovered archival materials. Vladislav Zubok is a Senior Fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., and Constantine Pleshakov is Director of the Pacific Studies Center at the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies in Moscow.
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Length:	346 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	23.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
Draws upon recently declassified archival materials, personal interviews, and a broad familiarity with Russian history and culture in order to reassess Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War. 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.
Industry reviews
"Cold War veterans could benefit from this first inside look at the personalities of the men who directed Soviet strategies....Specialists...will relish the author's historical perspective that refers to tsarist precedents of Soviet policies and practices..." Washington Post Book World - Jane Good (06/09/1996) "A mostly engaging pastiche, this book can perhaps best be appreciated as unwitting testimony on Communism's collapse." New York Times Book Review - Stephen Kotkin (09/22/1996) "[This book is] the most significant addition to the literature on Soviet foreign policy to have appeared since the end of the Cold War." Legvold "An important book by two members of a new generation of Russian historians. Using newly...declassified files, they have set out to explore the 'background, psychology, motives, and behavior of Soviet rulers' from Stalin to Khrushchev...[The authors] do not offer any major new interpretations of the period but give instead an infinitely more nuanced understanding of the forces that shaped Soviet policy...The most careful, comprehensive, and balanced assessment yet of what Wellington once called 'the other side of the hill.'" Kirkus

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