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Author : National Geographic Book Service,National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 087044817X
Author : Petr Nikolaevich Malevskiĭ-Malevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : OCLC:71388111
Author : Vladislav M. Zubok
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262445
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 : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : LCCN:2003000006
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465097920
On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades -- with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world. As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the United States. On the contrary, American leaders dreaded the possibility that the Soviet Union -- weakened by infighting and economic turmoil -- might suddenly crumble, throwing all of Eurasia into chaos. Bush was firmly committed to supporting his ally and personal friend Gorbachev, and remained wary of nationalist or radical leaders such as recently elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Fearing what might happen to the large Soviet nuclear arsenal in the event of the union's collapse, Bush stood by Gorbachev as he resisted the growing independence movements in Ukraine, Moldova, and the Caucasus. Plokhy's detailed, authoritative account shows that it was only after the movement for independence of the republics had gained undeniable momentum on the eve of the Ukrainian vote for independence that fall that Bush finally abandoned Gorbachev to his fate. Drawing on recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months and argues that the key to the Soviet collapse was the inability of the two largest Soviet republics, Russia and Ukraine, to agree on the continuing existence of a unified state. By attributing the Soviet collapse to the impact of American actions, US policy makers overrated their own capacities in toppling and rebuilding foreign regimes. Not only was the key American role in the demise of the Soviet Union a myth, but this misplaced belief has guided -- and haunted -- American foreign policy ever since.
Author : National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : LCCN:2003000006
Author : Petr Nikolaevīch Malevskiĭ-Malevich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000050956568
Author : John Gunther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Julian Graffy,Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005579555
Culture and media institutions are part of the Soviet establishment, yet also head the counter-culture which has gradually been taking shape in the Brezhnev era. Glasnost has introduced new intellectual or institutional upheavals which the contributors describe and analyze.
Author : James Cracraft
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226226286
This newly revised and expanded second edition of The Soviet Union Today provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary Soviet reality. Written by thirty experts, the book is divided into eight general sections: history, politics, the armed forces, the physical context, the economy, science and technology, culture, and society. The individual chapters, which are intended to respond to the questions most frequently asked about the Soviet Union, are devoted to everything from the Lenin cult to the KGB; from Soviet architecture to Soviet education; from the status of women and ethnic minorities to the question of religion. All of the chapters from the first edition have been updated, and five new chapters—on the Soviet cinema, mass media, foreign trade, arms control, and the legal system—have been added. An annotated list of further reading suggestions and a special "Note for Travelers" enhance this volume's usefulness. Students, teachers, journalists, prospective tourists, and anyone interested in Soviet life will find this new edition of The Soviet Union Today an essential and stimulating guide to understanding the world's largest country.
Author : Roman Szporluk
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817995430
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 : Uri Ra'anan,Charles M. Perry
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012937366
Author : Gail Barbara Stewart
Publisher : Referencepoint Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : Ukraine
ISBN : 160152708X
Historical perspective on the republics that once made up the Soviet Union and the choices and challenges that have shaped where they are today is the focus of The Former Soviet Union: Then and Now. All books in the series examine important political, economic, and cultural events during the Soviet period and since the Soviet Union's collapse. Challenges that lie ahead are also explored. Quotes from recognized experts, respected news organizations, and other knowledgeable sources add depth and perspective to the text as do maps, sidebars, and key facts. Book jacket.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : OCLC:215382497
Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : IND:30000045753500
