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A Study of the Breakup of the Soviet Union ... [2]Francis Fukuyama, "Political Reforms Alone Did Not Cause The Collapse of the Soviet Union," in The Breakup of the Soviet Union, eds. William Barbour and Carol Wekesser (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1994), 56.
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Stephen Cohen: Putin's Russia can only be understood in the light of the national collapse triggered by the dissolution of the USSR. ... So why did so many western commentators hail the breakup of the Soviet Union as a "breakthrough" to democracy? Their reaction was based mainly on anti-communist ideology and hopeful myths.
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The Iran-Contra affair 1991. The Soviet reoccupation of Afghanistan early in Gorbachev's presidency The overthrow of the government in Nicaragua
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Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union by Roman Szporluk. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press. 2000. 437 pages. Paper. $24.95. Available from the Hoover Institution Press (800-935-2882) and Amazon.com.
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For most western commentators the Soviet breakup was an unambiguously positive turning point in Russian and world history. ... Most specialists no longer asked, even in the light of the human tragedies that followed in the 1990s, if a reforming Soviet Union might have been the best hope for the post-communist future of Russia.
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As a result, the breakup of the Soviet Union was not a singular event that occurred overnight, rather was caused by decades of neglect and abuse to the former nations by the central communist government. A government that would never end, but find ways to cover-up its identity.
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Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Reagan; freedom in East Europe; breakup of the Soviet Union. ... The Soviet Union had lost 26 million people in World War II, but by 1970 its population would be 228 million, up from 190 million in 1937. The Soviet Union was one-sixth of the land area of the world. Its arable land was...
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In the newly independent states, there were 43.4 million members of the titular nationalities of these states living outside their homelands, and numerous others at the sub-national level.2 At the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union, there were 53 ethnic homelands, 15 of which became the successor states to the...
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The shock waves from Kyrgyzstan’s lightning revolution are spreading around the former Soviet Union — and into the heart of Russia — leading analysts to wonder which regimes might be next to face the peoples’ wrath.
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