2008 h-diplo H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables Volume IX, No. 10 (2008) 19 May 2008 Vladislav M. Zubok. A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, September 2007. 488 pp., $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8078-3098-7. Roundtable Editor: Thomas Maddux Reviewers: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Kevin O’Connor, Geoffrey Roberts URL: http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/FailedEmpire-Roundtable.pdf Contents Introduction by Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge.............................. 2 Review by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara.................................. 8 Review by Kevin O’Connor, Gonzaga University .................................................................... 21 Review by Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork, Ireland .............................................. 26 Response by Vladislav Zubok, Temple University................................................................... 36 Copyright © 2008 H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. H-Net permits the redistribution and reprinting of this work for non-profit, educational purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the author(s), web location, date of publication, H-Diplo, and H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses, contact the H-Diplo editorial staff at
[email protected]. H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews, Vol. IX, No 10 (2008) Introduction by Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge ladislav Zubok arrived on the American scene as co-author of Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War. From Stalin to Khrushchev in 1996 and as an on-the-air commentator for CNN’s documentary series on the “Cold War,” 24 hours of narrated photos, action- footage, interviews of participants, and retrospective assessments by Tom Blanton of the CWIHP (Cold War International History Project) and Zubok.