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001 2001060255
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008 011228s2002 nyub b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aDJK50$b.P4 2002
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100 1 $aPearson, Raymond.
245 14 $aThe rise and fall of the Soviet Empire /$cRaymond Pearson.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave,$c2002.
300 $axxiv, 211 p. :$bmaps ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in contemporary history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 200-204) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1 Yalta 1945: Liberation or Occupation? 1 -- The First World War and the Partition of Eastern Europe 2 -- Interwar Soviet Europe 6 -- Interwar Versailles Europe 9 -- The Second World War and the Repartition of Eastern Europe 16 -- Operation Barbarossa 19 -- The End of the Nazi 'New Order' 22 -- 2 Belgrade 1948: Cold War Empire 25 -- Military Occupation 25 -- Economic Exploitation 28 -- Strategic Insulation 32 -- Political Subordination 37 -- Ideological Conversion 42 -- The Newest Empire 45 -- 3 Budapest 1956: Thaw and Refreeze 50 -- From Stalin to Khrushchev 52 -- Polish October, Hungarian November 58 -- Reaction and Readjustment 63 -- Hollow Victory 69 -- 4 Prague 1968: Spring and Fall 71 -- Return to De-Stalinisation 71 -- From Khrushchev to Kosygin 75 -- 'Socialism with a Human Face' 79 -- Brezhnev and 'Normalisation' 86 -- Steady State 91 -- 5 Gdansk 1980: Stagnation to Solidarity 96 -- Empire on the Slide 99 -- Poland's 'Self-Limiting Revolution' 101 -- 1980,1968 and 1956 105 -- Empire in the Red 109 -- Grey Eminences 113 -- 6 Berlin 1989: Decolonisation of the -- Outer Empire 116 -- Gorbachev and Glasnost 116 -- The Impotence of the Powerful 121 -- The Power of the Powerless 128 -- People-Power 131 -- Beating Retreat 134 -- Landslide and Timeslip 139 -- 7 Moscow 1991: Disintegration of the Inner Empire 143 -- Soviet Disunion 144 -- Imperial Implosion 152 -- Conspiracy and Climax 160 -- Capitulation and Closure 164 -- 8 The Last Empire? 166 -- Designations and Definitions 167 -- Rising and Falling 174 -- Weaknesses and Strengths 178 -- Vices and Virtues 185 -- Retrospective and Perspective 192.
651 0 $aEurope, Eastern$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1945-1991.
830 0 $aStudies in contemporary history (Palgrave (Firm))
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2001060255.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2001060255.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001060255.html