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The Last Years of the Soviet Empire: Snapshots from 1985-1991

The Last Years of the Soviet Empire: Snapshots from 1985-1991

Shlapentokh, Vladimir
O'Donnell, Neil

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesRussian History

ISBN10: 0275944409
ISBN13: 9780275944407
Publisher: Praeger
Published: May 30 1993
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.98
Language: English

Between 1985 and 1991, the Soviet Union was shaken to its core by a series of remarkable social and political developments. Throughout the period, the eminent Sovietologist Vladimir Shlapentokh monitored the revolution and recorded his impressions in a series of essays which were published in major North American newspapers and periodicals. Here Shlapentokh collects these snapshots of current events that detail the progression of perestroika and glasnost. The essays and accompanying narrative form a kind of political diary, reflecting not only the facts of history, but the author's perspective as a Soviet/Western observer.

Each chapter focuses on a single year. The snapshots from that year are woven together with narrative describing the year's most important milestones, including events in Moscow, results of new polls, new social trends, and revelations in the Soviet mass media. Surprisingly, Shlapentokh concludes that perestroika was not inevitable, and that the Soviet Union was not, as many scholars assert, doomed to collapse. The author's unusual perspective is preserved throughout the book, since none of the essays, including those that predicted future events, have been altered to more closely approximate events that actually took place. Recommended for scholars of sociology, political science, and Soviet history.

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