Russia after the war : hopes, illusions, and disappointments, 1945-1957 / by Elena Zubkova ; translated and edited by Hugh Ragsdale.

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.