Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Vladislav M. Zubok — Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (2021)Vladislav M. Zubok · 2021 · BookDisputedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-1116 · as of 2026-10-30 · about: Soviet Union: perestroika, democratisation and collapse (1985–1991) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“The Soviet Union could have survived as a reformed federation had different choices been made about the sequencing of reform and the union treaty in 1990–1991.”
Context. Historians who stress agency and contingency (Brown, Zubok) see real alternatives; others argue that a system built on coercion and scarcity could not survive liberalisation.
Evidence that supports
1Evidence that contradicts
0No counter-evidence recorded.
Context
The Gorbachev Factor
The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR
Status history
No earlier revisions.
Disputes
No disputes have been filed.