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The August Coup by Robert Service review – the drink-soaked collapse of the Soviet Union
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- currentsapi-gapfill(Mixed)By John Simpson
Marxist-Leninist rule in Russia lasted 74 years, and in August 1991 it effectively collapsed in just three days: clear evidence of how hollowed out it had become. In the period that followed, Russia tried parliamentary democracy and unalloyed capitalism, then sank back into autoc…
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