Reform in Modern Russian History
Subtitle: Progress or Cycle? (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780521451772
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Perestroæika; Russia - History; History - General History; History: World; Eastern Europe; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Renaissance; Russia--History--1801-1917--Congresses; 1801-1917; Congresses; History; Soviet Union
First sentence: The twentieth century ended in December 1991 with the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union and the decomposition of the Soviet Union into a conglomerate of independent states.