General Information

Author/Creator

Pryce-Jones, David, 1936-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Metropolitan Books, H. Holt, 1995.

Physical Description

viii, 456 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

The sudden and almost bloodless demise of the Soviet Union - and with it, communism - caught everyone by surprise, from the KGB and the Red Army to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the dissidents at home and in the satellite states. In the first full-scale account of this mysterious transformation, historian and journalist David Pryce-Jones is able to provide answers to the crucial questions: Why did Gorbachev not shoot his way out of the crisis in classic Soviet style, as former leaders had done in Hungary and Czechoslovakia? How did an unlikely alliance of nationalist actors, idealistic poets, and political priests unseat the ruling despots of Warsaw, Bucharest, East Berlin, and Prague? What role did the West really play in all this? And what do these remarkable events presage for Russia's future? The result is a vivid account of the Soviet empire's fall, as experienced from the inside - and at the top. Uncompromising in its accuracy and keen in its insight, The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire is the definitive account of one of history's greatest anticlimaxes.

Subjects

Subject

Soviet Union > History > 1985-1991.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

David Pryce-Jones.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0805041540

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.085/4 PRY		General Stacks	-

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