Using recently uncovered archival materials, personal interviews, and a broad familiarity with Russian history and culture, two young Russian historians have written a major interpretation of the Cold War as seen from the Soviet shore.

Russian collection.

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 Kennedy: the taming of the Cold War -- Postmortem: empire without heroes.