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Article: A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
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- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev, by Vladislav M. Zubok. North Carolina, August 2007. $39.95
This challenging account is perhaps the most complete and compelling yet written of the Soviet side of the Cold War. Fresh archival evidence allows Zubok to elaborate on the "revolutionary-imperial paradigm" that he and Constantine Pleshakov first posited in their landmark book inside the Kremlin's Cold War. In both works, one finds Soviet leaders driven as much by the calamities of Russian history as by the central tenets of Marx and Lenin. Zubok's account is challenging because it refutes previous assumptions about key ...