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Collapse: the fall of the Soviet Union

by Zubok, Vladislav Martinovič

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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 year…

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  • Full title :Collapse : the fall of the Soviet Union / Vladislav M. Zubok

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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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  • Publication Date:2021

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Notes

Literaturverzeichnis Seite 502-510

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  • Description:xix, 535 Seiten,16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln : Illustrationen, Karten : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780300257304, 0300257309
  • oclc:on1305503016

Subjects

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich History Politics and government Soviet Union Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991 Soviet Union -- Politics and government…

Writers

Zubok, Vladislav Martinovič

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