Armageddon Averted by Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Kotkin charts the collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the key developments in recent history, and analyzes why it happened. He examines the internal structural, cultural and political reasons for the demise both of the Communist system and of the Union, drawing on memoirs and documents of the senior figures involved, including Ligachev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, as well as on the burgeoning secondary literature. The book puts the Soviet collapse in the context of the global economic changes from the 1970s to the present day, examining why the advent of Siberian oil at a time of shortage elsewhere had profound and long-term effects on the Soviet Union's raison d'etre.The John P. Kotkin Award is given to Stephen Kotkin. Birkelund '52 is a Princeton University Professor of History and International Affairs, as well as the Co-Director of the Program in History and the Practice of Diplomacy and the Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Steeltown, USSR (California, 1991) is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192802453 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192802453 |
| Title | Armageddon Averted |
| Author | Stephen Kotkin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2001-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 258 |
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