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“... was already the early 1970s, and people were turning 30 and taking the flowers out of their hair. Vladislav Zubok had a similar problem. Coming to maturity in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s, he was in time for the collapse and disillusionment that followed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 but not for the heady excitement that had ...”

“... limited his own power, to give his people freedoms they had never known before. The verdict of Vladislav Zubok, a decade younger, is more stringent. His masterpiece, Collapse (2021), is a devastating analysis of the reasons Gorbachev’s reforms failed. If he could be so unceremoniously ejected from office, amid popular indifference, by a rival of far ...”