This textbook is designed to meet the need for an up-to-date account of Soviet politics written in the light of contemporary events in the now defunct Union. The spectacle of the rise, development and collapse of the Soviet Union - the great 20th-century empire and superpower - has fascinated contemporaries and provoked changes within both Europe and the world system. This book aims to provide a succinct overview of the political history of the Soviet Union, considered with hindsight from a contemporary perspective, together with an account of the achievements (and failures) of Gorbachev in the period of glasnost and perestroika, and a preliminary survey of Yeltsin's efforts to hold together a disintegrating Commonwealth. Covering the period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, this history of nearly a century of Soviet politics should be of interest to students, teachers and general readers alike.
- ISBN10 0631187758
- ISBN13 9780631187752
- Publish Date 2 December 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 August 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English