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For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler
Call Number: E183.8 .S65 L44 2007 (Gumberg 3rd floor)
To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did? Leffler's important book illuminates how Reagan, Bush, and, above all, Gorbachev finally extricated themselves from the policies and mind-sets that had imprisoned their predecessors, and were able to reconfigure Soviet-American relations after decades of confrontation.
A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev by Vladislav M. Zubok
Call Number: DK274 .Z825 2007 (Gumberg 3rd floor)
Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century.
The Cold War: the United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 by Ronald E. Powaski
Call Number: E183.8.S65 P69 1998 (Gumberg 3rd floor)
The Cold War focuses on the tumultuous relationship between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, offering a new perspective on the great rivalry between the two countries. The text examines the crystallization of the Cold War between the two superpowers following the radically divergent pathsthey took after 1917, highlighting the domestic politics, diplomatic maneuvers, and even the psychological factors that bound the two countries in conflict.

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The Hot 'Cold War': The USSR in Southern Africa by Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin
This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments.The book focuses on states experiencing violent internal conflict and foreign intervention, that is Angola, Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR by Chris Miller
Making use of never-before-studied documents from the Soviet politburo and other archives, Miller argues that the difference between the Soviet Union and China--and the ultimate cause of the Soviet collapse--was not economics but politics. The Soviet government was divided by bitter conflict, and Gorbachev, the ostensible Soviet autocrat, was unable to outmaneuver the interest groups that were threatened by his economic reforms. Miller's analysis settles long-standing debates about the politics and economics of perestroika, transforming our understanding of the causes of the Soviet Union's rapid demise.
The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the communist world by Lorenz M. Luthi; Lorenz M. M. Lüthi; Lorenz M. Lüthi; Lorenz M. LÃ¼thi; Lorenz M. Lthi
A decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz Lüthi tells the story of this rupture, which became one of the defining events of the Cold War.
Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War by Margaret E. Peacock
In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad.

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(USSR or Soviet Union) AND Joseph Stalin
(USSR or Soviet Union) AND Nikita Khrushchev
(USSR or Soviet Union) AND Leonid Brezhnev
(USSR or Soviet Union) AND Mikhail Gorbachev
(USSR or Soviet Union) AND "Cold War"
(USSR or Soviet Union) AND Communism
(USSR or Soviet Union) AND "Cold War" AND ("Nuclear weapons" OR "Nuclear arms")
"The Red Army"
Glasnost
Perestroika
Destalinization

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