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UNINA9910784573103321 |
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Autore |
Kotkin Stephen |
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Titolo |
Armageddon averted : the Soviet collapse, 1970-2000 / / Stephen Kotkin |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001 |
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©2001 |
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ISBN |
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9780191539091 |
1-280-53435-4 |
9786610534357 |
0-19-153909-0 |
0-19-534706-4 |
1-60256-685-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 245 pages, 16 pages of plates ) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Communism - Soviet Union - History |
Soviet Union History 1953-1985 |
Soviet Union History 1985-1991 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2001. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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History’s cruel tricks -- Reviving the dream -- The drama of reform -- Waiting for the end of the world -- Survival and cannibalism in the rust belt -- Democracy without liberalism? -- Idealism and treason. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Using several dozen memoirs of insiders and many declassified documents, this volume narrates and explains not just the collapse of socialism but also of the Union and in a comparative framework shows how and why the two collapsed together. |
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