Michael’s Reviews > Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union > Status Update
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30 pages in, beginning with the succession of Andropov through to Gorbachev and Gorbachev is crashing the economy and destroying the state.
— Jul 01, 2026 05:05PM
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Michael
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Incredible comedy of errors from Gorbachev. Doesn't visit Chernobyl until 3 years later. Lets Yeltsin meet Bush Sr. before he can when Iron Curtain falls. Allows state enterprises and cooperatives to set own consumer prices while maintaining state fixed prices for inventory, leading to price gouging and inflation. Prohibition of alcohol (a third of GDP). Empowered ethnonationalist political factions under perestroika
— 12 hours, 29 min ago
