Polity Atlas
Book

The Gorbachev Factor

Archie Brown · Oxford University Press · 1996

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Book
Author
Archie Brown
Identifier
DOI 10.1093/0192880527.001.0001
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2026-09-01

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DisputedThe 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.EstablishedAfter 1953 the Soviet leadership replaced personal dictatorship with collective leadership in which the Central Committee could remove the top leader, as it did peacefully with Khrushchev in 1964.