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

By: Zubok, Vladislav MContributor(s): Zubok, Vladislav MMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: ;International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiPublication details: New Haven :Yale University Press, ©2021Description: xxiv, 535p illustrations, maps 25 cmISBN: 9780300257304Subject(s): History | History of Europe | Russia and neighboring east European countries | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, -- 1931 | Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 | Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1945-1991 | URSS -- Histoire -- 1953-1985 | URSS -- Histoire -- 1985-1991 | URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1991 | Politics and government | Soviet UnionDDC classification: 947.085 ZUB

Contents:

Part I. Hope and hubris, 1983-90 -- Part II. Decline and downfall, 1991.

Summary: "A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union--showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise. 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, 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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Part I. Hope and hubris, 1983-90 --
Part II. Decline and downfall, 1991.

"A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union--showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise. 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, 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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