CollapseA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Unionshowing how Gorbachevs misguided reforms led to its demise A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times [A] masterly analysis.Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear tipped missiles