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Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin
The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia
Over the past few years, many of the former Communist-rule countries of Central and Eastern Europe have taken a steady path toward becoming more or less normal capitalist countries - with Poland and Hungary cases in point. Russia, on the other hand, has experienced extreme difficulties in its...
Published February 14th 2007 by Routledge
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Revolution From Above
The Demise of the Soviet System
Controversially this book argues that the ruling party-state elite in the USSR itself moved to dismantle the old system. Topics discussed include: * the beginnings of economic decline in 1975 * Gorbachev's efforts to democratize and decentralize * the complex political battle through which the...
Published January 1st 1997 by Routledge
