Everything We ‘Know’ About the USSR is Wrong
Prof Rutland: the rapid fall of the USSR was unexpected, similar to today's Middle Eastern uprisings
In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Peter Rutland, The Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor on Democratic Thought, professor of Government, professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies, comments on the fall of the Soviet Union and how its demise is in some ways similar to what is happening in some of the countries of North Africa and The Middle East.