The Causes and Consequences of the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Prepared for the Center for Global Change and Governance

The Soviet Union

• 1989: The Walls Came Tumbling Down (The History Guide)
• A Chronology of Russian History (Bucknell University)
• Perestroika (Library of Congress's Soviet Archives exhibit)
• The Soviet Era (Russian National Tourist Office)
• Soviet Union - A Country Study (Area Handbook)

• Archive of the August 1991 Soviet Coup (FUNET)
• Gorbachev Speech Dissolving the Soviet Union (USSR): Christmas 1991 (Public Purpose)
• Civil War in Moscow, October'93 (RUSphoto)
• From Central Planning to Markets (Interview with Yegor Gaidar)
• Integration and Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Regional and Global Security (Brown University: Watson Institute Occasional Paper #30, 1997) 155 KB PDF file
• Who Lost Russia? (Heritage Foundation)

• You can also search for books in the online catalog using the following subject headings:
  • Russia (Federation) -- Politics and Government -- 1985-1991
  • Soviet Union -- Politics and Government -- 1985-1991

Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

• BISNIS (Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States)
• REENIC (Russian and East European Network Information Center)
• REESWeb (Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources)
• Russia (CIA World Factbook, other nations)
• Russia and the Former Soviet Republics Maps (University of Texas at Austin)
• Russia and the New Independent States of the Former USSR (U.S. State Department)
• Russia's struggle with stabilization (World Bank)
• Capitalism in the Commonwealth of Independent States (James Davis)

• You can also search for books in the online catalog using the following subject headings:
  • Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Former Soviet Republics