Dominic Lieven: Author, Award-winning Historian, and Scholar
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
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Why the Soviet Union Collided So Quickly?
During those years it's the only time i've really been very involved in contemporary politics, because i was on margaret thatcher's little foreign policy consultative committee. So it was a very fascinating perch. And i wrote an enormous amount in the press at the time and dit a huge amount of television interviews. Think if you'd said in 19 85 that the soviet union would be dead within six years, you'd have got some pretty funny looks. That was a very minority view. It had an enormous and ruthless security apparatus. The idea that they would basically stand aside for so long, and then when they did intervene, do it so ineffectively, withan
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