Understanding the last Soviet generation : a critique of the historiography of the collapse of the Soviet union

• Main Author: Koh, Andy Ju Hua
• Other Authors: Scott Anthony
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66247
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the immediate period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the historiography was dominated by the absolute political arguments of the Cold War triumphalists. They argue that the Soviet collapse was unavoidable due to the inevitable Soviet economic failure and the American soft power winning ov...