TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coleman,Fred
TI  - The decline and fall of the Soviet Empire: forty years that shook the world, from Stalin to Yeltsin 
SN  - 0312143125
AV  - DK274 .C58 1996
U1  - 947.085 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - 1953-1985
KW  - 1985-1991
N1  - 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?
ER  -