Armageddon Averted : The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000.
Title:
Armageddon Averted : The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000.
Author:
Kotkin, Stephen.
ISBN:
9780195347067
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- 1 History's cruel tricks -- 2 Reviving the dream -- 3 The drama of reform -- 4 Waiting for the end of the world -- 5 Survival and cannibalism in the rust belt -- 6 Democracy without liberalism? -- 7 Idealism and treason -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In this text, Stephen Kotkin shows that the Soviet collapse resulted not from military competition but, ironically, from the dynamism of Communist ideology, the long-held dream for "socialism with a human face".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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