Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments, 1945-1957

The years of late Stalinism are one of the murkiest periods in Soviet history, best known to us through the voices of Ehrenburg, Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn. This history of Russia from the end of the war to the Thaw is by a respected young historian, who draws upon newly-opened archives.