Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-453) and index
1. The Soviet people and Stalin between war and peace, 1945 -- 2. Stalin’s road to the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- 3. Stalemate in Germany, 1945-1953 -- 4. Kremlin politics and "peaceful coexistence," 1953-1957 -- 5. The nuclear education of Khrushchev, 1953-1963 -- 6. The Soviet home front : first cracks, 1953-1968 -- 7. Brezhnev and the road to detente, 1965-1972 -- 8. Detente’s decline and Soviet overreach, 1973-1979 -- 9. The old Guard’s exit, 1980-1987 -- 10. Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, 1988-1991.
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