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Published on: 2014-05-13
Released on: 2014-05-13
Original language: English

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after Bush's speech and has persisted for decades—with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world.As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the United States. On the contrary, American leaders dreaded the possibility that the Soviet Union—weakened by infighting and economic turmoil—might suddenly crumble, throwing all of Eurasia into chaos. Bush was firmly committed to supporting his ally and personal friend Gorbachev, and remained wary of nationalist or radical leaders such as recently elected Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Fearing what might happen to the large Soviet nuclear arsenal in the event of the union's collapse, Bush stood by Gorbachev as he resisted the growing independence movements in Ukraine, Moldova, and the Caucasus. Plokhy's detailed, authoritative account shows that it was only after the movement for independence of the republics had gained undeniable momentum on the eve of the Ukrainian vote for independence that fall that Bush finally abandoned Gorbachev to his fate.Drawing on recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months and argues that the key to the Soviet collapse was the inability of the two largest Soviet republics, Russia and Ukraine, to agree on the continuing existence of a unified state. By attributing the Soviet collapse to the impact of American actions, US policy makers overrated their own capacities in toppling and rebuilding foreign regimes. Not only was the key American role in the demise of the Soviet Union a myth, but this misplaced belief has guided—and haunted—American foreign policy ever since. The Soviet Union Is Gone But Its Still Collapsing ... The Soviet Union Is Gone But Its Still Collapsing And 5 other unlearned lessons from leading experts about modern Russia and the death of an empire. Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the ... Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong Foreign Policy the Global Magazine of News and Ideas Soviet Union - Wikipedia The Soviet Union (Russian: tr. Sovetskiy Soyuz [s'vetskj sjs]) officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... Military Campaign of Cuban and African ... - Soviet-Empire.com Soviet cogitations: 177 Defected to the U.S.S.R.: Sat 20 Feb 2010 11:57 Resident Admiral Reform Coup and Collapse: The End of the Soviet State - BBC Professor Archie Brown explains the reasons behind the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union and examines how such an authoritarian system could be ... Fall of the Soviet Union - Cold War - HISTORY.com Article Details: Fall of the Soviet Union. Author. History.com Staff. Website Name. History.com. Year Published. 2011. Title. Fall of the Soviet Union. URL. http ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the ... Home The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia People of the Soviet Union; Federal government; Republican governments; Autonomous SSRs Soviet Union - Simple English Wikipedia the free encyclopedia The Soviet Union (short for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR) was a single-party Marxist-Leninist state. It existed from 1922 until 1991 and was the first ...
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