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Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union

Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union

O'Clery, Conor

Paperback

General World HistoryRussian HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1610391985
ISBN13: 9781610391986
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Nov 6 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking bulldozer, wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev's authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin, and move in as ruler of Russia.

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