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Orlov's book Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, published in 2008, further details his views. [9] Discussing the book in 2009, in a piece in The New Yorker, Ben McGrath wrote that Orlov describes "superpower collapse soup" common to both the U.S. and the Soviet Union: "a severe shortfall in the production of crude oil, a worsening foreign-trade deficit, an ...
Orlov, 70, is on trial in Russia for articles he published last year which cast Russia as a "fascist" state seeking revenge for the perceived humiliations of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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."
The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Baltic republics on 6 September 1991. [121] Georgia cut all ties with the Soviet Union on 7 September, citing the failure to receive a "sufficiently grounded answer" why the USSR did not recognise its independence when it had recognised the Baltic States' secession. [122]
Orlov was fined around $1,500 earlier this month and convicted of publicly “discrediting” the Russian ... Memorial was founded in the Soviet Union in 1987 to ensure that victims of Communist ...
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 ...
Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison on Tuesday for "discrediting the armed forces" by protesting against the war in Ukraine and accusing President ...
Previously unused archival footage of the Soviet Union and Russia from the BBC's Moscow bureau was unearthed and digitised by a BBC employee, Phil Goodwin. [1] Adam Curtis appeared to be the only person within the BBC interested in using the footage. [2]