The war that never was: The fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-1991 Mark Shoemaker Under the general editorship of

Under the general editorship of award-winning cultural critic Ilan Stavans

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The war that never was: The fall of the Soviet Empire, 1985-1991 Mark Shoemaker Under the general editorship ofThis is an account of the end of the Soviet empire. The coup of August 1991 brought an end not only to Gorbachev's political career, but to the entire Soviet Union: communism imploded, the Berlin Wall had been dismantled, Germany reunified, and several European states regained their independence. This reordering of the world, unimaginable to most people in the West, occurred remarkably peacefully. David Pryce Jones travelled throughout the former