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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
Traces the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union, drawing on once secret Soviet archives and interviews with key figures to provide a definitive account of forty years of Russian history
This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context.
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union examines the strengths, weaknesses, and contradictions of the first Marxist state, and reassesses the role of power, authority and legitimacy in Soviet politics.
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.
Chronicles the years of Joseph Stalin's iron-fisted reign in the Soviet Union, from the time of Lenin's death to the dawn of World War II.
See also Archive of the Federal Government Commission of Czechoslovakia, Russian file, Archive of the External Policy of the USSR, R43, cited in Kieran D. Williams, “Czechoslovakia, 1968,” Slavonic and East European Review 74, no.
The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century.
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in 1917, it is important to understand how a small band of Communists was able to take over a country of 150 million, and how, seventy-four years later, the huge Soviet Empire they had ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject.