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Moscow's Heavy Shadow
2023
Overview
Moscow's Heavy Shadow tells
the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the
many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of
abjection and violence. Mikhail Gorbachev and the leaders
of the USSR saw the years of reform preceding the collapse as
opportunities for rebuilding ( perestroika ), rejuvenation,
and openness ( glasnost ). For those in provincial cities
across the Soviet Union, however, these reforms led to rapid
change, economic collapse, and violence.
Focusing on Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Isaac McKean Scarborough
describes how this city experienced skyrocketing unemployment, a
depleted budget, and streets filled with angry young men unable to
support their families. Tajikistan was left without financial or
military resources, unable and unprepared to stand against the wave
of populist politicians of all stripes who took advantage of the
economic collapse and social discontent to try to gain power. By
May 1992, political conflict became violent and bloody and engulfed
the whole of Tajikistan in war. Moscow's Heavy Shadow
tells the story of how this war came to be, and how it was grounded
in the reform and collapse of the Soviet economy that came
before.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other)
/ HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union
/ SOVIET & EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY
/ Soviet Union-Economic policy-1986-1991
/ Soviet Union-History-1985-1991
ISBN
9781501771026, 1501771027, 9781501771040, 1501771043
