Russia and international crises. Mid -twentieth century

The work examines the policy of Russia during the Cold War. The introductory chapter is dedicated to the last period of being in power I.V. Stalin. The main part of the book considers the foreign policy of the USSR in the posttalinsky period. It analyzes the occurrence and settlement of the three largest foreign policy crises - Suez, Berlin and Cuban. The book is based on the archival materials of party and Soviet state institutions, including the Presidium and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on intelligence documents: the first Main Directorate of the KGB, the Main Intelligence Department of the General Staff and the Central Archive of the FSB.
For specialist historians and a wide range of readers interested in international relations and Soviet foreign policy