From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlle…
From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlle…
From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlle…
In From Washington to Moscow veteran US Foreign Service officer Louis Sell draws archival sources and memoirs-many in Russian-as well as his own experiences to trace the history of US-Soviet relations between 1972 and 1991 and to explain what caused the Soviet Union's collapse.
"When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United States. Less than twenty years later the Soviet Union had collapsed, confounding exp…
"This book examines the role of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the downfall of the Soviet Union at the peaceful end of the Cold War. It includes groundbreaking, archives-based research on important facets of the Soviet collapse" Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the end of the…
Amerikaanse ambassadeur in de Sovjet-Unie van 1987 tot 1991, beschrijft de ondergang van het communisme in de Sovjet-Unie
Matlock served in the USSR for most of his career, including as ambassador during the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Matlock, who served in the USSR for most of his career, including as ambassador during the Reagan and Bush administrations, gives this insider's look at the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
One of the strenghts of this survey is the way which past and present are linked, the shortcomings of state socialism providing at least a partial explanation for the way in which women have lost out in the rush to liberalisation and the market.
An introduction to the experience of women in former state socialist countries, which attempts to unravel the legacy of state socialism in relation to women. The book explores women's status in East Central Europe, both before and after 1989.
