Ask Historians - In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, the Soviet archives were opened and historians had access to a lot of previously secret information. Did anything found in the archives radically
Published Archival Materials - Soviet History: a Bibliographic Guide to Published Sources - Research Guides at Harvard Library
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SOVIET ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN 1991. A WEAK FOUNDATION FOR A NEW POLITICAL BEGINNING. NATO ECONOMIC COMMITTEE REPORT - NATO Archives Online
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This December is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union – how does an empire collapse?
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