Новинки Зубка Владислаа Мартиновича

Владислав Зубок – профессор Лондонской школы экономики и политических наук – в своей книге "Коллапс. Гибель Советского Союза" рассматривает причины и последствия распада СССР, оценивает влияние этого события на ход мировой истории и опровергает устоявшиеся мифы, главным из которых является миф о неизбежности распада Союза. "Коллапс" – это подробнейший разбор событий 1983–1991 гг., ставший итогом многолетних исследований автора, общения с непосредственными участниками событий и исследователями данного феномена, работы с документами в архивах США и России. В нем изображены политические и экономические проблемы государства, интеллектуальная…

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise

In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century.

Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.

Вашему вниманию представлена книга Владислава Зубока "Д.С.Лихачев в общественной жизни России конца ХХ века".

Книга профессора истории Университета Темпл (США) Владислава Зубока посвящена изучению мотивов и интересов Советского Союза в холодной войне. На ее написание повлияли новые источники и методологические находки: автор использовал большой массив ранее не доступных архивных документов - от записей, сделанных на заседаниях Политбюро, шифротелеграмм, которыми обменивались руководители компартий, до мемуаров бывших коммунистических лидеров и интервью с их помощниками, дипломатами, разведчиками и военными. Книга предназначена историкам, политологам, преподавателям и студентам, всем интересующимся историей международных отношений СССР.

Zhivago?s Children – The Last Russian Intelligentsia

Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin, who was driven by the dual dream of a Communist revolution and a global empire. They reveal the scope and limits of Stalin's ambitions by taking us into the world of his closest subordinates, the ruthless and unimaginative foreign minister Molotov and the Party's chief propagandist, Zhdanov, a man brimming with hubris and missionary zeal. The authors expose the machinations of the much-feared secret police chief Beria and the party cadre manager Malenkov, who tried but failed to set Soviet policies on a different course after Stalin's death. Finally, they document the motives and actions of the self-made and self-confident Nikita Khrushchev, full of Russian pride and party dogma, who overturned many of Stalin's policies with bold strategizing on a global scale. The authors show how, despite such attempts to change Soviet diplomacy, Stalin's legacy continued to divide Germany and Europe, and led the Soviets to the split with Maoist China and to the Cuban missile crisis.

Zubok and Pleshakov's groundbreaking work reveals how Soviet statesmen conceived and conducted their rivalry with the West within the context of their own domestic and global concerns and aspirations. The authors persuasively demonstrate that the Soviet leaders did not seek a conflict with the United States, yet failed to prevent it or bring it to conclusion. They also document why and how Kremlin policy-makers, cautious and scheming as they were, triggered the gravest crises of the Cold War in Korea, Berlin, and Cuba. Taking us into the corridors of the Kremlin and the minds of its leaders, Zubok and Pleshakov present intimate portraits of the men who made the West fear, to reveal why and how they acted as they did.