Description: "[This book] offers a detailed analysis of the politics of the Soviet Union's collapse. He focuses on the struggle for power among the top leaders of the Communist Party apparatus, using archival materials, interviews, and press sources... This is the best account yet available of the micropolitics of the USSR's disintegration... Recommended for all research libraries, upper-division undergraduates and above." --P. Rutland, Choice "Relying on a wealth of detailed institutional, policy, and elite information, Hahn presents a magisterial study that fills a significant void in our understanding of USSR's destruction. While readers may at times feel overwhelmed.... readers are presented with a conceptual approach that can be useful for appreciating ongoing institutional changes and oftern subtle elite maneuverings in the post-Soviet era." --John P. Willerton, University of Arizona "This is a big book in all respects, weighty both in size and scholarship. The core is a meticulous analysis of the perestroika period of the Soviet Union (1985-91). Followed by a concluding general chapter that applies the earlier analysis to post-Communist Russia (1992-2000). The work is based on years of painstaking analysis, considerable archival research, and numerous interviews." --The Russian Review "This is an important book with a number of substantive strengths." --Slavic Review

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