Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union Mitchell Beazley Since it was first published

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Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union Mitchell Beazley Since it was first publishedThe implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and hard drinking bulldozer, wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by