Inside the Kremlin's cold war : from Stalin to Khrushchev
This work explores the personalities and motivations of the key figures who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. It begins with Stalin, and his dream of Communist revolution and a global empire, and ends by looking at Khrushchev, who ended many of Stalin's policies.
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Prologue: the view from the Kremlin, 1945. Stalin - revolutionary potentate; Stalin and shattered peace; Molotov - expanding the borders; Zhdanov and the origins of the Eastern Bloc; Beria and Malenkov - learning to love the bomb; the education of Nikita Khrushchev; Khrushchev and the Sino-Soviet schism; Khrushchev and Kennedy - the taming of the Cold War; empire without heroes.