This shortlist of books was referred to at this post on the 1991 Soviet Collapse. As a starting framework, start here.
The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Moscow in 1990.
On March 11, 1990, Lithuania declared itself an independent state, the first of the Soviet Republics to do so. Independence movements quickly grew.
Alienation & the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era, Paul Craig Roberts, 1990.
Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, Paul Craig Roberts and Karen Lafollette, 1990.
Russia’s Revolution from Above, 1985-2000: Reform, Transition, and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, Gordon Hahn, 2002.
Russia’s Path from Gorbachev to Putin: The Demise of the Soviet System and the New Russia, David Kotz and Fred Weir, 2007.
The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev’s Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets, Judy Shelton, 1989.
Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? Andrei Amalrik, 1970.
So when it’s finally announced, the captain has had time to get in a lifeboat, the politicians to get on a fast jet, the bankers to empty the accounts, the ex-wife to be, to hide as much cash as possible.. on and on.
Example, when the poor soldiers of Batista’s army (in Cuba, 1959) , knew it was “over’, General Batista was already on the soil of the Dominican Republic, We the unwashed masses, are supposed to find out last.. unless we study things, and make plans to also jump ship.
Batista came to power as a clever Army Sargent and led a Sargent’s revolt to take over Cuba. (what goes around.. comes around).
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fulgencio-Batista
[An astute judge of men, Batista preferred to consolidate his control through patronage rather than terror.
He cultivated the support of the army, the civil service, and organized labor. (sounds a bit like the USA government, does it not)]
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