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Emerging from its Stalinist introversion in 1953, the USSR found itself for the first time a global power. With an efficiency no leadership in Moscow could achieve on its own, the Second World War had vanquished the traditional opponents of Russia. Stalin had crowned the compressed industrial revolution of the 1930s — a national mobilization of resources unequaled in history — with the world’s second nuclear force. It remained to his successors to decide what to do with their newly acquired capabilities.
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McCain, M. (1987). Thinking South: Soviet Strategic Interests in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In: Malik, H. (eds) Soviet-American Relations with Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08553-8_3
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