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How the Soviet Union disappeared : an essay on the causes of dissolution

Wisła. Suraska (Author)
Useful to sovietologists, political scientists, and students of communism and nationalism. This title argues that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the result of an attempt by Gorbachev to concentrate political power. It also examines the complex relationship between the Communist Party, the KGB, and the military.
Print Book, English, 1998
Duke university press, Durham [etc.], 1998
X, 187 p. ; 23 cm.
9780822321248, 0822321246
1047899441
Contents Foreword Prologue The First Soviet Generation Horizontal Disintegration: the Center-Periphery Conflict Vertical Disintegration: The KGB-Miltary Contest The Miracle of German Unification Conceptual Revisions Despotism and the Modern State "Suraska's essays stands out as a towering example of clear thinking based on the firm foundations of solid historical knowledge and creative theoretical interpretation." -- from the foreword by John Lowenhardt, University of Glasgow