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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Stephen Kotkin
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Description for Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 34 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 324.
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to the demise of Communism and the USSR. The new edition puts the ... Read more
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to the demise of Communism and the USSR. The new edition puts the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195368635
SKU
V9780195368635
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About Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Kotkin is Professor of European and Asian History at Princeton University, where he also directs the Russian-Eurasian Studies Program. He is the author of nine books, including an acclaimed two-volume study of the rise and fall of Soviet socialism: Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization and Steeltown, USSR: Soviet Society in the Gorbachev Era.
Reviews for Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
"The clearest picture we have to date of the post-Soviet landscape."
The New Yorker "A triumph of the art of contemporary history. In fewer than 200 pages, Kotkin elucidates the implosion of the Soviet empire
the most important and startling series of international events of the past fifty years
and clearly spells out why, thanks almost entirely to the 'principal restraint' of the ... Read more
The New Yorker "A triumph of the art of contemporary history. In fewer than 200 pages, Kotkin elucidates the implosion of the Soviet empire
the most important and startling series of international events of the past fifty years
and clearly spells out why, thanks almost entirely to the 'principal restraint' of the ... Read more