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The Collapse of the USSR: Vladislav Zubok Interview

Charlotte Cowell, Russophile and writer, sat down with the author of Collapse, the story of the USSR and Gorbachev's demise.

Vladislav Zubok

Vladislav Zubok, Collapse is a brilliant book and incredibly comprehensive, but there are polar opposite narratives about this historical period which focus (for example) on the nefarious actions of the KGB in Eastern Europe. Did you deliberately avoid exploring the...

Gorbachev and the Chernobyl Disaster

The Chernobyl disaster was a major factor in the fall of the Soviet Union, but how much was it exacerbated by Mikhail Gorbachev?

Vladislav Zubok

Gorbachev and the Chernobyl Disaster Whatever calculations Mikhail Gorbachev, his Prime Minister, Nikolai Ryzhkov, and Soviet economists had made for the long term, the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear plant wrecked everything. The explosion of one of its four...