Crumble of the Perfect Plan

This book traces how the Soviet Union-built as a utopian laboratory of ideology-foundered on its own internal contradictions, from an unbalanced economy to suppressed national identities, as the very promise of the system eroded the legitimacy it claimed to represent. It treats the 1991 dissolution not as a single political shock but as the culmination of decades in which Marxist Leninist dogma c...