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Predictions of the Soviet Union's impending demise were discounted by many Western academic specialists, [7] and had little impact on mainstream Sovietology. [8] For example, Amalrik's book "was welcomed as a piece of brilliant literature in the West" but "virtually no one tended to take it at face value as a piece of political prediction."
According to the scholar Marcel H. Van Herpen, the end of the Soviet Union marked the end of the last European empire, and some authors called it the death of Russian colonialism and imperialism. [181] As the Soviet Union began to collapse, social disintegration and political instability fueled a surge in ethnic conflict. [182]
Polls of Russian citizens conducted by Levada Center in November 2016, 2017, and 2018 showed that a majority viewed the collapse of the USSR negatively (56%, 58%, and 66% respectively) and felt that it could have been avoided (51%, 52%, and 60% respectively). The 2018 figure of 66% who regretted the USSR's collapse was the highest since 2004.
The quasi-governmental Jewish Agency, which coordinated the massive flow of Jews arriving from the Soviet Union, called an emergency meeting to assess how the coup would affect Jewish immigration. "We are closely following what is happening in the Soviet Union with concern," Foreign Minister David Levy said. "One might say that this is an ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...
While Russia narrowly avoided what many feared could be a civil war, the violent clashes on Oct. 3-4, 1993, marked a watershed. ... Yeltsin moved into the Kremlin after the USSR collapsed in 1991 ...
Voting bulletin. A referendum on the future of the Soviet Union was held on 17 March 1991 across the Soviet Union.It was the only national referendum in the history of the Soviet Union, [1] although it was boycotted by authorities in six of the fifteen Soviet republics.
Less pessimistic polls showed him garnering an even greater share of the vote. [34] Most opinion polls showed Yeltsin far ahead of other candidates. [37] Many showed him receiving more than 60% of the vote. [28] On the eve of the election, many polls incorrectly indicated that Bakatin was going to place third. [28]