مساعي الكرملين خلال الحرب الباردة للسيطرة على العالم

What would it be like to rule the world? Soviet rulers spent the Cold War desperately trying to find out. In this comprehensive new history of the conflict that shaped the postwar era, Sergei Radchenko offers an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of Kremlin decision-making. It reveals how the Soviet conflict with the United States and China reflected its conflicting ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and leader of the global revolution. This tension drove Soviet politics from Stalin's frenzied postwar quest for territorial control, to Khrushchev's reckless adventures abroad and his dangerous nuclear policies, Brezhnev's competition for influence in the Third World, and Gorbachev's failed attempts to remake Moscow's claims to greatness. Enduring fears, delusions of grandeur, and a desire for recognition have driven Moscow on a feverish quest for global power, with disastrous consequences and a painful legacy that continues to shape our world. A comprehensive new history of Soviet foreign policy from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, revealing the hidden secrets of the Kremlin This reveals the role that political legitimacy, and the accompanying desire for recognition, played, and continues to play, in Soviet and Russian foreign policies. This book offers new insights into key events of the Cold War based on previously unknown archival material.