Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the last days of the Soviet Empire /
This is a history of the most riveting true story of our age - the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of a thousand-year empire. In 1991, the world watched in wonder as the Soviet Union's monolithic government collapsed under the weight of its unwieldy power. Now, in a dramatic and inform...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1992.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: The Power Shifts
- 1. The Old Guard's Last Stand
- 2. Building an Empire
- 3. The Making of a Leader
- 4. The Reluctant Revolutionary
- 5. The Politics of Glasnost
- 6. The Fall and Rise of Boris Yeltsin
- 7. Raisa Maximovna, Footnote to History
- 8. Economics
- Up to Perestroika and Beyond
- 9. The Last Communist
- 10. The Empire Crumbles.