The Fall of the Soviet Union

Readings: Adomeit, Hannes. “The Comprehensive Crisis of Empire.” Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev: An Analysis Based on New Archival Evidence, Memoirs, and Interviews. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2016. Open Access: Kotkin, Stephen. Armageddon Averted : the Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000. Oxford, 2008. Ouimet, Matthew J. “National Interest and the Question of Soviet Intervention in Poland, 1980-1981: Interpreting the Collapse of the ’Brezhnev Doctrine.” The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 78, no. 4, 2000, pp. 710–34.