The Enigma of 1989
Subtitle: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 29, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780520206311
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); International relations; Political ideologies; Political structure & processes; c 1980 to c 1990; History - General History; Contemporary Politics - Former Soviet Republics; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Eastern Europe; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); International Relations - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History & Theory - General; Political Science / General; 1945-1989; Europe, Eastern; Foreign Relations; Politics and government; Soviet Union
First sentence: When Mikhail Gorbachev took power in March 1985, nothing suggested that, seven years later, the USSR would have ceased to exist.