Coleman, Fred. <br/><br/>
The decline and fall of the Soviet Empire :  forty years that shook the world, from Stalin to Yeltsin / 
Fred Coleman. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  St. Martin's Press,  1996. 
 - xvii, 459 p., [16] p. of plates :  map, ports. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-444) and index. 
<br/><br/>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?. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0312143125 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96001658 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.<br/>Soviet Union--History--1985-1991.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DK274  / .C58 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>947.085