The Collapse of a Great Power: Behind the Scenes of the Disintegration of the Soviet Union
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About This Novel
Top-secret archives at the Bush Library newly declassified! An expert on modern history from Harvard University, he restores the five months that changed the fate of the Soviet Union and the face of the world. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was undoubtedly one of the most significant events of the 20th century. The author reinterprets that complicated history based on recently declassified top-secret archives from the Bush presidential library, including memos from presidential advisers and top-secret phone calls between Bush and world leaders. This book challenges conventional wisdom about the end of the Cold War and reveals the complex game played by the Bush administration as it sought to end the Cold War and preserve the Soviet Union as its key partner on the international stage. The author focuses on four figures at the center of the event - George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Leonid Kravchuk - to tell the story of the last five months of the Soviet Union, which changed the fate of the Soviet Union and the structure of the world. The author of this book is multilingual and has access to documents in English, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian, which puts him in a unique position to present a new and dramatic story about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Official(1)Scraped 1d ago
Filling the gaps in knowledge will lead to a deeper understanding of history and a clearer judgment of the future.
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Official(1)Scraped 1d ago
Filling the gaps in knowledge will lead to a deeper understanding of history and a clearer judgment of the future.
