Communism in Decline: From Sputnik to Gorbachev
For 74 years, the Soviet Union’s communist experiment held together. And at their peak, communist regimes ruled more than one-third of the world’s population. What really caused this giant experiment to decline and fall apart? In Communism in Decline: From Sputnik to Gorbachev, Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius reveals the internal and external forces that ripped apart the grand communist experiment. In 12 fascinating lectures, you will learn how the Soviet Union went from winning the space race against the United States in 1957 to Gorbachev’s resignation and the dissolution of the great experiment in 1991.
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