I’m writing a book about the collapse of the Soviet Union, anyone want to co-author it?
Hello!
I’ve read a bit about the illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union, and it seems that there are quite a few good works, but all of them are missing some key element or another.
Keeran and Kenny is a good introduction but don’t discuss the actual mechanism of the Perestroika reforms enough to explain why it led to economic collapse, Archie Brown and Zubok aren’t Marxists, Safronov provides good economic analysis but he doesn’t cover the political aspect as much because that wasn’t the focus of his work anyways, the memoirs of Ligachev and Ryzhkov tell only their side of the story, etc.
So why not write a book myself that covers all the aspects of the dissolution?
This community has quite a number of well-read people, so I was thinking, would anyone here be interested in coauthoring such a book?