The decline and fall of the Soviet Empire : forty years that shook the world, from Stalin to Yeltsin /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1996.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Pt.I. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1953-1964) : The October surprise
- Stalin's legacy
- The permanent power struggle
- Pt.II. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1964-1982) : All that jazz
- Comrades
- Dissent comes out of the closet
- Economic madness
- The Soviet threat: the world's largest standing army
- The KGB: a veto on Russia's future
- Détente as a one-way street
- Pt.III. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1985-1991) : Reform from the top down: Perestroika (1985-88)
- Reform from the bottom up: Democratization (1989-90)
- From reform to rebellion: nationalism
- Foreign surprises: détente as a two-way street
- Countdown to a coup (1990-91)
- The death of communism
- Pt.IV. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1991-1995) : The battle for Russia's soul (1992-93)
- The waiting game (1994-95)
- What is to be done?