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Soviet Union / Russian Federation
The demise of the Soviet Union
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? Lecture by William Taubman at Wellesley College
Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?
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Wellesley College Russian Department
Published on Apr 24, 2017
April 5, 2017
In this lecture, William Taubman, professor of Political Science at Amherst College and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, sheds a light on how Mihail Gorbachev undermined the Soviet system in pursuit of his dream of the democratized country.