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Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire

Raymond Pearson
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Europe
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

Product details

  • ISBN 9780333948071
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 214mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jul 2002
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire describes and explains the creation, maintenance and eventual demise of the Soviet regime across post-1945 Eastern Europe. Balancing internal factors such as resilient nationalism against external factors such as America's acceleration of the arms race, Raymond Pearson sets the so-called 'Soviet Empire' within the broader context of global imperialism and decolonisation. Full coverage is also given to the dramatic episodes of Eastern Europe dissent and the chequered career of the ostensibly monolithic 'Soviet Empire'.

This revised and updated second edition features an expanded final chapter on the 'Last Empire', assessing not only its patent strengths and hidden weaknesses, but also its much publicised vices and rarely acknowledged virtues. New documentation that has only become available in the last five years has been incorporated to provide a fuller retrospective historical judgement on the Soviet regime across Eastern Europe.
About Raymond Pearson
RAYMOND PEARSON is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Ulster. He has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia and Eastern Europe.

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