The Decline and Fall of Soviet Empire: Forty Years That Shook The World From Stalin to Yeltsin

About this book

For this authoritative work on the slow collapse of the Soviet Union Fred Coleman draws on over thirty years of first-hand observations and personal experiences as a Moscow correspondent. Having interviewed at length major Soviet figures-from Sakharov to Gorbachev and Yeltsin-and having tapped the once top-secret Soviet archives Coleman demonstrates that communism was already doomed from Stalins death in 1953 and that the West greatly overestimated the Soviet military threat. Aided by his own unique access to the inside stories Coleman provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the demise of one of historys great superpowers.