Inside the Soviet alternate universe : the Cold War's end and the Soviet Union's fall reappraised /
"Reappraises the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union based on the author's 35-year career as a specialist in Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. Explores the psychological universe of Soviet rulers to clarify the nature of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms"--Provided b...
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
c2008.
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- Reminiscence : ten years inside the empire
- Initial encounters with the other side
- Working levels of the Soviet regime
- Stagnation and disaffection
- The beginning of the end
- Reflection : a neglected psychological perspective
- Comprehending another political world
- Formation of the Soviet conception of governance
- The conception's evolution under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
- Gorbachev and the conception's terminal phase
- Relevance : psychological milieu and current foreign policy issues
- Reappraising the Cold War's end and the empire's fall I : key pieces of the puzzle
- Reappraising the Cold War's end and the empire's fall II : fitting the pieces together
- Empire and democracy in post-Soviet Russia
- An analytical blind spot and its consequences.