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Collapse - The Fall of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
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Collapse - The Fall of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
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A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how
Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed
account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite,
Financial Times "[A] masterly analysis."-Joshua Rubenstein, Wall
Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe
and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an
army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles
and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon
afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart
by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic
shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok
offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR,
refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was
inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev's misguided
reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union,
deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism.
Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic
struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances-and the
fragility of authoritarian state power.
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