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Episode 66: Zubok on the USSR's collapse

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Is Gorbachev a Sorcerer's Apprentice?

In 1990, Gorbachev still was capable of making drastic decisions on Soviet economy and other things. And he didn't. That was a very underappreciated year in Western historiography. The attention in the West by that time had pivoted to the effect of Eastern Europe but not to the Soviet Union.

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