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Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union

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Suspenseful chronicle of the Soviet Union's demise.

If you're intrigued by pivotal historical moments, "Moscow, December 25, 1991" will transport you to the intense final hours of the Cold War. Conor O'Clery has masterfully captured the tension, the complex power struggles, and the sense of an ending in a narrative that reads like a thriller. Anyone interested in the intricate and often clandestine machinations of global politics would find this book gripping.

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Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union

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ISBN: 9781586487966
Authors: Conor O'Clery
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Date of Publication: 2011-08-23
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics, History
Goodreads rating: 4.13
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The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and hard-drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev’s authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union finally collapsed, and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin and move in as ruler of Russia. Conor O’Clery has written a unique and truly suspenseful thriller of the day the Soviet Union died. The internal power plays, the shifting alliances, the betrayals, the mysterious three colonels carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes, and the jockeying to exploit the future are worthy of John Le Carré or Alan Furst. The Cold War’s last act was a magnificent dark drama played out in the shadows of the Kremlin.
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Suspenseful chronicle of the Soviet Union's demise.

If you're intrigued by pivotal historical moments, "Moscow, December 25, 1991" will transport you to the intense final hours of the Cold War. Conor O'Clery has masterfully captured the tension, the complex power struggles, and the sense of an ending in a narrative that reads like a thriller. Anyone interested in the intricate and often clandestine machinations of global politics would find this book gripping.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.