 Author discuss the fall of te Soviet Union, and the main reasons for its demise, and it

was suprisinlgy.
 Weakened economy in probably the most importat reason for revolution in '90s in
Russia
 Ex.: Sharp drop of oil prices in '80s.
 The political circumstances were even less trublesome.
 In that time, SSSR was probably major state with firlmy power.
 The real problems for SSSR started to showing up from 1985.-1989., and major
problems had appeared in economy, policy and social problems.
 Revolution from above
 Democratisation was not a slogab but the essence of prestroika.
 Numerous briliant essayists considered that a moral resurrection was essential.
 ''To save the people one had to save perestroika, but perestroika could be saved only if
it was capable of changing man from within''
 Comparision with revolution in Tunis (Dignity before Bread), and in Libya, Saudi
Arabia
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