The Changing Soviet Union
Subtitle: Implications for Canada and the World
Publisher: Lorimer
Published: January 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781550283297
Subjects: Reference; History - General History; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; General; 1; 322; 88; Glasnost  perestroika cold war; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); 1985-1995
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.