The Changing Soviet Union
Subtitle: Implications for Canada and the World
Publisher: Lorimer
Published: 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781550283310
Subjects: Canada; World politics; Foreign relations; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; Soviet Union; 1985-; Reference
First sentence: Since 1985, the image of the Soviet Union as a police state in which dissent was effectively crushed or punished, has been swept away in the era of openness and democratization initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev.