Paul A Winters, ed. The Collapse of the Soviet Union.(The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System: An Interpretation)(Book Review)

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Paul A Winters, ed. The Collapse of the Soviet Union. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999. Pp. 288. Cloth, $24.96; ISBN 1-56510-997-X. Paper, $15.96; ISBN 1-56510-996-1.

Christopher Read. The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System: An Interpretation. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 259. Cloth, $65.00; ISBN 0-333-73152-2. Paper, $20.95; ISBN 0-333-73153-0.

The Collapse of the Soviet Union and The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System offer two different approaches to the question of why the Soviet Union came apart. Paul Winters focuses his attention on the Gorbachev ...

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