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

• List of illustrations -- Dramatic personae -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction: A puzzle -- Part I Hope and hubris, 1983-90 / 1. Perestroika -- 2. Release -- 3. Revolutions -- 4. Separatism -- 5. Crossroads -- 6. Leviathan -- Part II Decline and downfall, 1991 / 7. Standoff -- 8. Devolution -- 9. Consensus -- 10. Conspiracy -- 11. Junta -- 12. Demise -- 13. Cacophony -- 14. Independence -- 15. Liquidation -- Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

• Was the break-up of the Soviet Union inevitable? Thirty years after its collapse, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR. He reveals how Gorbachev's misguided reforms deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances - and, ultimately, the fragility of an authoritarian state.--Back cover. 

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Soviet Union  -- Economic policy -- 1986-1991. (LCSH)

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Gorbačev, Michail Sergeevič, 1931-2022

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