A FAILED EMPIRE: THE SOVIET UNION IN THE COLD WAR FROM STALIN TO GORBACHEV
Book ID/图书代码： 13014008B26009
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Using recently declassified Politburo records, ciphered telegrams, diaries, and taped conversations, among other sources, Zubok explores the origins of the superpowers’ confrontation under Stalin, Khrushchev’s contradictory and counterproductive attempts to ease tensions, the surprising story of Brezhnev’s passion for detente, and Gorbachev’s destruction of the Soviet superpower as the by-product of his hasty steps to end the Cold War and to reform the Soviet Union. The first work in English to cover the entire Cold War from the Soviet side, A Failed Empire provides a history different from those written by the Western victors.
In a new preface for this edition, the author adds to our understanding of today’s events in Russia, including who the new players are and how their policies will affect the state of the world in the twenty-first century.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 弗拉迪斯拉夫 佐伯克提出，西方對於冷戰的解釋 - 現實主義和新保守主義二者 - 錯誤地誇大克里姆林宮的實用主義或它的侵略性。解釋了對於克里姆林宮的領導人和蘇聯的精英的多種利益，願望，幻想，恐懼，錯覺的誤解，佐伯克提出了二十世紀以蘇聯最大對峙陣營的角度來看待冷戰。
最近解密的政治局記錄，以加密形式電報，日記，和錄音的談話，還有其他來源，佐伯克探討超級大國的起源，史達林的對峙，赫魯雪夫的矛盾和反作用試圖緩和緊張局勢，勃列日涅夫激情退卻下令人驚訝的故事，和冷戰結束後戈巴契夫草率的副產品計畫和蘇聯改革對超級大國的破壞。在英語的第一部作品，涵蓋了從蘇聯方面整個冷戰，一個衰敗的帝國不同于西方的勝利者撰寫的歷史。
在这个版本的序言里，作者增加了我们所能了解的在俄罗斯当下事件，包括在二十一世纪新的参与者和他们的政策会如何影响世界的现状。(sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：羅斯潘俄羅斯的語言版權獎（2009）
西班牙語的語言版權評論編輯部（2007）
波蘭的語言版權加戈羅琳大學出版社（2007）
愛沙尼亞語言版權愛沙尼亞出版社（2008）
歐盟保加利亞語言版權（2008）
英國政治家們的平裝書，梅休因出版有限公司（2007）
歷史書會書友會俱樂部版權（2007）
Russian language rights to Rosspen (2009)
Spanish language rights to Editorial Critica (2007)
Polish language rights to Jagiellonian University Press (2007)
Estonian language rights to Tänapäev Publishers (2008)
Bulgarian language rights to EMAS (2008)
British paperback rights to Politico’s, Methuen Publishing Ltd (2007)
Book club rights to History Book Club (2007)
“A Failed Empire draw[s] on abundant new primary sources to refine our understanding of the Cold War, turning it from a melodrama into a nuanced tragedy. . . [This] book . . . offers new information and fresh interpretation. Zubok reveals the full extent of Stalin’s brutal post-World War II suppression of the Soviet People.”---Washington Post Book World
“Zubok has taken on a huge challenge in attempting to narrate the entire evolution of the Cold War from the perspective of the apex of power in Moscow. He succeeds admirably
. . . . This is a book that can be read by the specialist and generalist alike. . . . The book should reignite serious discussion about the causes of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which is the subject of his interesting conclusion.”---History Book Club
"This book is the best history we have of the Soviet side of the Cold War. Far more than a survey, Zubok’s analysis is based on cutting-edge historical scholarship. He makes use of the most recently available sources and brings to their interpretation an unusually sharp mind."---William Taubman, Amherst College
"An excellent overview of Soviet foreign policy and a forceful explanation of why Communism collapsed, centering on Gorbachev’s mistakes and misjudgments." ---O. A. Westad, author of The Global Cold War
About the Author/作者介绍： 弗拉迪斯拉夫 佐伯克是坦普爾大學的歷史學副教授。他是《在俄羅斯的反美主義》的合著者：冷戰前後，克里姆林宮內的史達林到夫普京：冷戰期間的史達林到赫魯雪夫。Vladislav M. Zubok is associate professor of history at Temple University. He is coauthor of Anti-Americanism in Russia: From Stalin to Putin and Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev.
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