Revolution Road
Foreign Policy presents a special report on the Soviet collapse two decades later — and why it matters now, in today’s revolutionary times. As the protesters of the Arab Spring invoke the ghosts of Moscow 1991 in seeking to topple their own autocratic regimes, we’ve assembled an all-star cast of some of the world’s leading ...
Foreign Policy presents a special report on the Soviet collapse two decades later — and why it matters now, in today’s revolutionary times. As the protesters of the Arab Spring invoke the ghosts of Moscow 1991 in seeking to topple their own autocratic regimes, we’ve assembled an all-star cast of some of the world’s leading Russia watchers, from two Pulitzer Prize winners to one of Boris Yeltsin’s top lieutenants, to help us ponder the enduring, and never more relevant, mysteries of how the Communist regime crumbled – and the state of the former Soviet Union today. Be warned: Everything you think you know about the Soviet collapse is wrong.
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How’d We Do Covering the Revolution?
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Gorby, the Man Who Changed the World
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Don’t Go There
By Orlando Figes -
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A Kremlin Built For Two
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The Blank Spots
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The Far Side of the Soviet Moon
By David E. Hoffman
GUNS OF AUGUST
Photos By Jared P. Moossy
RUSSIA’S BIG BACKYARD
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THE LOST LESSONS OF FREEDOM
By Nina L. Khrushcheva
Meltdown
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The Long, Lame Afterlife of Mikhail Gorbachev
By Anne Applebaum
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