The Decline and Fall of Soviet Empire: Forty Years That Shook The World, From Stalin to YeltsinMacmillan, 1996 - 459 pages A definitive account of the Soviet Empire's collapse -- by the only living American correspondent to report from Moscow during the last four decades. In 1917, John Reed, an American journalist, wrote Ten Days That Shook The World, the classic account of the 1917 Communist revolution in Russia. Now, Fred Coleman, a Moscow correspondent who spent over 30 years gathering observations, has produced this sweeping examination of the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Among Coleman's revelations are the inside stories behind: Krushchev's fall from power -- Why Brezhnev's invasion of Czechoslovakia was doomed to failure -- Gorbachev's rationale for risking reform -- Yeltsin's death blow to the Soviet state. Coleman has created an indispensible history of the Soviet Union that will be read for years to come. Must reading for all who seek a clear picture of the Soviet period." |
Contents
CHAPTER 1THE OCTOBER SURPRISE | 3 |
CHAPTER 2STALINS LEGACY | 13 |
CHAPTER 3THE PERMANENT POWER STRUGGLE | 34 |
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev | 61 |
CHAPTER 5COMRADES | 74 |
CHAPTER 6DISSENT COMES OUT OF | 95 |
CHAPTER 7ECONOMIC MADNESS | 118 |
THE WORLDS | 141 |
CHAPTER 12REFORM FROM THE BOTTOM | 244 |
DÉTENTE | 297 |
CHAPTER 16THE DEATH OF COMMUNISM | 341 |
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin | 359 |
CHAPTER 18THE WAITING GAME 199495 | 384 |
CHAPTER 19WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 407 |
Acknowledgments | 430 |
Bibliography | 441 |
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