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Title The collapse of the Soviet Union / Paul A. Winters, book editor.

Publication Info. San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [1999]
©1999

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 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  YA 947.085 COL    Check Shelf
Description 288 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Series Turning points in world history
Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282) and index.
Contents 1. Prelude to the collapse. The death of the "old guard" / by Seweryn Bialer -- Confrontation with the West / by Richard V. Allen -- Economic stagnation / by Leonard Silk -- The Chernobyl disaster / by Sergei Roy -- 2. Attempts at reforming the government. Unmet economic expectations under Gorbachev / by S. Frederick Starr -- The rise of Gorbachev : perestroika and glasnost / by Richard Pipes -- Cooperation with the West / by Stephen Sestanovich -- Cultural ferment / by Geoffrey Hosking -- 3. Disintegration of empire. Retreat from Afghanistan / by Anthony Arnold -- Revolutions in Eastern Europe / by Coit D. Blacker -- Growing autonomy for the republics / by Martha Brill Olcott -- Popular elections for the Russian parliament / by Martin Malia -- The fall of the Berlin Wall / by Timothy Garton Ash -- 4. Collapse of the union. The August 1991 coup / by Michael Mandelbaum -- A disillusioned military / by Gabriel Schoenfeld -- The emergence of Boris Yeltsin / by Martin Malia -- Votes for independence in the republics : Ukraine / by Robert Cullen -- 5. Strife in the former union. War in Nagorno-Karabakh : Armenia versus Azerbaijan / by Arif Yunusov -- Independence for Russian minorities : war in Chechnya / by Vera Tolz -- Instability in Georgia / by Ken Gluck -- Russia and the former republics / by Robert Cullen.
Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Added Author Winters, Paul A., 1965-
ISBN 156510997X lib. alkaline paper
1565109961 paperback alkaline paper
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