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A brilliant and original account of how Gorbachev's easing of information controls destroyed the illusions of communism and drove the Soviet system to ruin. Shane writes with such bracing authority, such startling insight, that Dismantling Utopia must be regarded as one of the essential works on the fall of the Soviet Union. --Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesShane, Scott is the author of 'Dismantling Utopia How Information Ended the Soviet Union' with ISBN 9781566630481 and ISBN 1566630487.
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