The Fall of Soviet Communism 1985–91

• Main Author: Smith, Jeremy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
• Series: Studies in European History
• Subjects: History.; Russia > History.; Europe, Eastern > History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.

The fall of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states in December 1991 was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. In the last years of Soviet rule, images of mass protests on the streets of Moscow, Tbilisi and Vilnius, bloodshed in Baku, striking...