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Article: A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2009
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A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. By Vladislav M. Zubok. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Pp. xvi, 467. $39.95.)
During the Cold War, there was very little objective analysis. United States historiography often had severe flag-waving faults, while its Soviet counterpart was more uniformly dogged by adhesion to the prescribed line. Hopes must be high, therefore, that Vladislav M. Zubok, brought up in the Soviet Union but now teaching in the United States, will be able, with his understanding of both sides, to achieve an informed balance. He himself makes his aims clear. Using a considerable ...