The Soviet Union and Its Successors 1970-2020 is one of several country surveys that Gretton Books is publishing during 2024 under the overall rubric of ‘1974 Fifty Years On’.
The surveys developed from the positive reception that greeted our 2020 publication ‘1974 – A World in Flux’ by Joe Brydon.
The aim of the series and each country survey is to provide a social, historical, political and cultural analysis over a fifty year period. Each of the surveys is written primarily for those aged 16-24 (the next generation) and appropriate for those soon to start, or already at, college or university, but is expected to appeal more widely as well.
The Soviet Union and Its Successors 1970-2020 Jeremy Smith
Professor of Russian and Border Studies, University of Eastern Finland
ISBN 978-1-7392067-4-1 paperback £9.99 iv+128pp
CONTENTS
| Preface | |
| 1 | Background – Communism and the Soviet Union 1917-1970 |
| 2 | The Soviet Union under Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko 1970-1985 |
| 3 | The Soviet Union under Gorbachev and its collapse 1985-1991 |
| 4 | The Successor States 1991-2000 |
| 5 | The Successor States 2000-2010 |
| 6 | The Successor States 2010-2020 |
| Additional reading |
TABLES AND FIGURES
| The Soviet Union from the Russian Empire to the Successor States |
| Presidents of the fifteen post-Soviet (successor) states 1991-2020 |