LEADER 03165nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910457517303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-53435-4 010 $a9786610534357 010 $a0-19-153909-0 010 $a0-19-534706-4 010 $a1-60256-685-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000362976 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24083055 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000105581 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12017886 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105581 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10105277 035 $a(PQKB)11572859 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC279425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279425 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142493 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53435 035 $a(OCoLC)171572897 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000362976 100 $a20011114d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArmageddon averted$b[electronic resource] $ethe Soviet collapse, 1970-2000 /$fStephen Kotkin 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 245 p., [16] p. of plates )$cill., maps, ports 300 $aOriginally published: 2001. 311 $a0-19-516894-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aUsing 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. 330 $bIn the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the 20th century, nobody envisaged that the collapse of the Soviet Union would come from within, still less that it would happen meekly, without global conflagration. In this compact book, Stephen Kotkin shows that the Soviet collapse resulted not from military competition but, ironically, from the dynamism of Communist ideology, the long-held dream for "socialism with a human face". The neo-liberal reforms in post-Soviet Russia never took place, nor could they have, given the Soviet-era inheritance in the social, political and economic landscape. Kotkin takes us deep into post-Stalin Soviet society and institutions, into the everyday hopes and secret political intrigues that affected 285 million people, before and after 1991. He conveys the high drama of a superpower falling apart while armed to the teeth with millions of loyal troops and tens of thousands of weapons of mass destruction. "Armageddon Averted" vividly demonstrates the overriding importance of history, individual ambition, geopolitics and institutions, and deftly draws out contemporary Russia's contradictory predicament. 606 $aCommunism$zSoviet Union$xHistory 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1953-1985 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1985-1991 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory. 676 $a947.085 700 $aKotkin$b Stephen$0301208 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457517303321 996 $aArmageddon averted$9722178 997 $aUNINA