1989 and the implosion of the communist establishment /
Stephen Kotkin ; with a contribution by Jan T. Gross.
Modern Library ed., 1st ed.
New York :
Modern Library,
2009.
xxiii, 197 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm.
Modern Library chronicles ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bank run -- No exit -- Breakthrough -- As if.
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The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. In one of history's most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded--not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two scholars of Eastern European and Soviet affairs revisit what happened, in this fresh, incisive look at communism's collapse.