An overview of the significant events and individuals associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union that discusses the rise of communism, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Boris Yeltsin, and more.
This book looks at the transformation of politics throughout the world as new military and economic alliances were established after the Soviet Unions breakup.
Briefly explores the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the causes and effects of the end of the Cold War on both the United States and the Soviet Union.
A personal and political memoir in which the author, principal English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister ?duard Shevardnadze, reveals his experiences as an eyewitness to the U.S.-Soviet summit talks that led to the end of the Cold War.
Examines the events in the Soviet Union during the time of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, including the failed coup of 1991 and the collapse of the Union itself.
