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The War that Never was: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-1991 by David Pryce-Jones
The War that Never was: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-1991

David Pryce-Jones

The War that Never was: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-1991

David Pryce-Jones

416 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective tense medium-paced
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Boris Yeltsin's bid for power then split the Party, leading to the coup of August 1991 and Gorbachev's own destruction. Why Gorbachev and the leadership did not resort to armed violence to pre-empt these events in classic Soviet style is the quest...

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