The Complete Guide to the Soviet Union
Author : Victor E. Louis
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1976-11
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ISBN : 9780312157500
Author : Victor E. Louis
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1976-11
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ISBN : 9780312157500
Author : V. Louis
Publisher : State Mutual Book & Periodical Service
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
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ISBN : 9780785540311
Author : Victor and Jennifer Louis
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Victor E. Louis
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1980-04-01
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ISBN : 9780312157531
Author : Victor Eugene Louis
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Paul McDaniel
Publisher : Historial Research
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780965628907
Author : Vladislav M. Zubok
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0300262442
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.
Author : Roman Szporluk
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0817995439
This book chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Although there were numerous reasons for the collapse of communism, it did not happen—as it may have seemed to some—overnight. Indeed, says Roman Szporluk, the root causes go back even earlier than 1917. To understand why the USSR broke up the way it did, it is necessary to understand the relationship between the two most important nations of the USSR—Russia and Ukraine—during the Soviet period and before, as well as the parallel but interrelated processes of nation formation in both states. Szporluk details a number of often-overlooked factors leading to the USSR's fall: how the processes of Russian identity formation were not completed by the time of the communist takeover in 1917, the unification of Ukraine in 1939–1945, and the Soviet period failing to find a resolution of the question of Russian-Ukrainian relations. The present-day conflict in the Caucasus, he asserts, is a sign that the problems of Russian identity remain.
Author : Peter Schweizer
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871136336
Describes the Reagan administration's covert campaign against the Soviet Union that increased stress on the Soviet economy.
Author : M. E. Sarotte
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 030026335X
Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall “The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently available.”—Andrew Moravscik, Foreign Affairs Not one inch. With these words, Secretary of State James Baker proposed a hypothetical bargain to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall: if you let your part of Germany go, we will move NATO not one inch eastward. Controversy erupted almost immediately over this 1990 exchange—but more important was the decade to come, when the words took on new meaning. Gorbachev let his Germany go, but Washington rethought the bargain, not least after the Soviet Union’s own collapse in December 1991. Washington realized it could not just win big but win bigger. Not one inch of territory needed to be off limits to NATO. On the thirtieth anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this book uses new evidence and interviews to show how, in the decade that culminated in Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, the United States and Russia undermined a potentially lasting partnership. Prize-winning historian M. E. Sarotte shows what went wrong.