Collapse – The Fall of the Soviet Union - Vladislav M. Zubok

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... Zobrazit více