THE FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE 1985-1991 by David Pryce-Jones 1995

Description: If you want to read just one book about how and why the whole Soviet empire crumbled and fell, you should read this one' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph The War That Never Was The Fall of the Soviet Empire 1985-1991 Even without the commentary (which is intelligent and interesting) I should have thought The War That Never Was must constitute a fabulous, absolutely indispensable source-book for future historians' Robert Grant, Literary Review The collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the great determining moments of history. An empire dissolved, and Communism with it. Confrontation, civil war, even nuclear apocalypse, seemed more likely than the abdication and surrender which in fact unfolded. Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary who presided over the last years of the empire and the Party as the Cold War melted away. Boris Yeltsin's bid for power led to the coup of August 1991. But why did Gorbachev and the leadership not resort to armed violence to pre-empt these events in classic Soviet style? David Pryce-Jones has travelled extensively throughout the former Soviet empire to ask major political personalities for their reactions and insights. 'An eminently readable and provocative study' Robert Shannan Peckham, New Statesman

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