Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical ChangeM.E. Sharpe, 1998 - 219 sidor Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts as great power conflict, imperial decline, revolution, ethnic conflict, colonialism, economic development, totalitarian ideology, and transition to democracy in a most accessible way. Questions and controversies, and extracts from documentary and literary sources, anchor the text at key points. This book is intended for use in history and political science courses on the Soviet Union or more generally on the 20th century. |
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Preface | ix |
Contexts and Comparisons 3 | xv |
Was the Soviet Collapse | 12 |
The Uses of History | 18 |
Legacies of Revolution | 25 |
Was the Soviet Union Doomed | 35 |
The PostStalin Years | 46 |
Explaining Economic Decline | 56 |
Toward the Market? Perestroika and the Soviet Economy | 114 |
What Went Wrong with | 121 |
Did Western Pressure | 127 |
The Unraveling of the Soviet Economy | 133 |
WorkingClass Protest in | 144 |
Who Acts in History | 170 |
Responding to | 178 |
Three Days in August | 187 |
Social Change in the PostStalin Years | 60 |
Making Nations | 71 |
What Held the Soviet Empire | 78 |
The Gorbachev | 86 |
The Key to All Our Problems | 95 |
What Have We Done? Democratization and Political Reform | 106 |
The Final Days of the Soviet Union | 194 |
Meaning and History | 200 |
Suggestions for Further Study | 207 |
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