1st Edition

Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change Understanding Historical Change

By Robert Strayer Copyright 1998
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
A concise introduction to the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools necessary to understand, analyze, criticize, and construct arguments: as well as to the philosophical mainstays of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical analysis.

Biography

Strayer, Robert