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  title info:
    title: Collapse
    sub title: the fall of the Soviet Union
  name:
    name part: Zubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 535 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Vladislav M. Zubok.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
      name part: 1931-
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: 1985-1991
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
    temporal: 1953-1985
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-1991
  classification: DK286 .Z83 2021
  classification: 947.085/4
  identifier: 0300257309
  identifier: 9780300257304
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210408
    record change date: 20220105171015.0
    record identifier: in00004360842