Stalin's American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War

Author/Contributor(s):	Taubman, William
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	10/01/1983
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In a study focused on Soviet foreign policy from 1941 to 1953, political scientist William Taubman describes an intermediate stage of detente, designed to undermine Western interests, that Stalin reluctantly abandoned because he had failed to anticipate the hardening of American policy that his own tactics provoked.