The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Was the Soviet system's failure inevitable from its inception? These essays consider the role of ideology, the failure of the economic system, and the failure of a messianic ambition.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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INTRODUCTION Collapse or Suicide?

1

(68)

Anne de Tinguy

PART I: THE IDEOLOGICAL FIASCO AND THE FAILURE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

69

(124)

Lilia Shevtsova

Was the Collapse of the Soviet Union Inevitable?

71

(18)

Andrei Grachev

Gorbachev's Preemptive Revolution

89

(8)

Jean Ellenstein

Communist Order, Capitalist Reforms?

97

(10)

Anatoli Vichnevsky

Soviet Federalism Between Unitarism and Nationalism

107

(15)

Nadine Marie

From the Failure of a Federal Structure to the Break Between State and Society

122

(12)

Caroline Ibos

The Delegitimization of the Soviet System, form Chestidissyatniki to Perestroichiki

134

(20)

Laure Mandeville

Why Didn't the Army Move in December 1991?

154

(15)

Georges Mink

The Criss-Crossing Effects of Gorbachevism Between the Center and the Periphery of the Soviet Bloc

169

(10)

Nadia Arbatova

A Comparative Analysis of the Disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia

179

(14)

PART II: THE FAILURE OF THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AND THE REJECTION OF THE SOVIET ORDER BY THE SOCIETY

193

(140)

Alain Blum

Did the Soviet Empire Ever Exist? A Demographical Answer

195

(19)

Robbin Laird

The Military Factor in the Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Limits of System Adaptation

214

(14)

Gerard Wild

Why Was the Economic System Not Reformable?

228

(19)

Gerard Wild

The Logic of Regional and National Physical Development

247

(17)

Victor Kuznetsov

The Economic Factors of the USSR's Disintegration

264

(16)

Martine Godet

Cinema: Reflection and Critique of Society

280

(13)

Veronique Jobert

The Russian Intelligentsia as Judge of and Party to the Collapse of the USSR: Form the Identity Crisis to the Moral Crisis

293

(14)

Serguei Chugrov

Ideological Stereotypes and Political Myths: The Empire Strikes Back

307

(15)

Kathy Rousselet

Evolutions and Upheavals in the Religious Sphere

322

(11)

PART III: THE FAILURE OF A MESSIANIC AMBITION

333

(110)

Jacques Levesque

Gorbachev's International Grand Design and the Eastern European Collapse

335

(13)

Andri Kortunov

The Soviet Disintegration: Did the West Play a Role?

348

(15)

Alexei Bogaturov

The Soviet Union: A Pacific Power or a Power in the Pacific?

363

(14)

Andrei Shoumikhin

Soviet Third World Policy: Illusions of Power

377

(14)

Renata Fritsch-Bournazel

The Dynamics of German Unification and Soviet Disintegration

391

(10)

Christiane Hurtig

India and the Collapse of the Soviet Union

401

(18)

General Henri Eyraud

The Collapse Seen From Peking

419

(12)

David Calleo

American Reactions to the End of the Cold War

431

(12)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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