Abstract
One of the leading specialists on the Soviet Union, Jerry Hough, has published a lengthy book analyzing events in the late 1980s and early 1990s that brought about the disintegration of the Soviet state. This essay challenges Hough's interpretations. It finds shortcomings both in his general approach and in many of his specific claims.
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Review Essay
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© 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2000
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