The decline and fall of the Soviet Empire : forty years that shook the world, from Stalin to Yeltsin / Fred Coleman.
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TextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 459 p., [16] p. of plates : map, ports. ; 24 cmISBN: 0312143125Subject(s): Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 | Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991DDC classification: 947.085 LOC classification: DK274 | .C58 1996| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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CUZ Harare Campus Open Shelf | DK 274.C58 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | BK0000326 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-444) and index.
Pt.I. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1953-1964) : The October surprise -- Stalin's legacy -- The permanent power struggle -- Pt.II. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1964-1982) : All that jazz -- Comrades -- Dissent comes out of the closet -- Economic madness -- The Soviet threat: the world's largest standing army -- The KGB: a veto on Russia's future -- D�etente as a one-way street -- Pt.III. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1985-1991) : Reform from the top down: Perestroika (1985-88) -- Reform from the bottom up: Democratization (1989-90) -- From reform to rebellion: nationalism -- Foreign surprises: d�etente as a two-way street -- Countdown to a coup (1990-91) -- The death of communism -- Pt.IV. Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1991-1995) : The battle for Russia's soul (1992-93) -- The waiting game (1994-95) -- What is to be done?.
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