Stephen Kotkin, in Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, takes upon himself the responsibility to answer the question of how and why did the Soviet Union collapse and simply cease to exist. He presents the arguments that the collapse was at the fault of Mikhail Gorbachev and his idea of socialist reform. The story is written in the setting of the first ten years of the Russian makeover. I felt that this book was very different …
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…and others, made it seem to be. It provides readers why a what, how and why the Soviet fell. I think that this book also serves, almost as, a study to show the course of socialism through a period of reformation and the inability for it to do this without devastation. The book is written in well manner providing us, the readers, with several added extras to help understand what was happening at the time.