books.google.fr - "My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would collapse...." From the Introduction to Collapse of an Empire The Soviet Union was an empire in many senses of the word a vast mix of far-flung...https://books.google.fr/books/about/Collapse_of_an_Empire.html?hl=fr&id=bDSfnxYjVwAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCollapse of an Empire