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A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev by Vladislav M. Zubok presents the Cold War from the perspective of Soviet leaders, institutions and political culture.
Drawing on declassified records, diaries, telegrams and other Soviet sources, Zubok examines the ambitions, fears, ideological commitments and miscalculations that shaped Kremlin policy from Stalin through Gorbachev. The book challenges simple portrayals of the Soviet Union as either purely pragmatic or uniformly aggressive and offers a detailed account of how Soviet decision-making evolved across the Cold War.


