title: Disintegration of the USSR in Historiography: Collapse or Dissolution
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metadata.value: Mironov, Boris N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T09:45:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-16T09:45:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Mironov B. N. Disintegration of the USSR in Historiography: Collapse or Dissolution. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 1, рp. 132–147.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/27904
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Over the period of 30 years various scientists representing different fields have been studying
  disintegration of the USSR with unflagging interest. As of August 1, 2020, more than 300 books,
  3000 articles, and 20 dissertations have been written in Russia alone. Generalization and critical
  analysis of this literature requires a monograph. But this task is so complex that for the
  time being the case is limited to historiographical articles. The purpose of this article is to
  identify the most popular points of view expressed by well-known experts on the problem of
  the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The analysis enables to draw the following conclusions.
  The existing explanations can be divided into two large groups. The first one includes works
  whose authors consider disintegration as the product of a combination of random circumstances,
  external causes, and mistakes of party and Soviet leaders, and therefore focus first
  on the study of the role of subjective and external factors, and, second, on the short period of
  time, 1985–1991, immediately preceding the disintegration. The second group includes works
  whose authors consider disintegration as a natural result of long-developed processes, search
  for its historical background, study trends in the development of the Soviet Union and the
  Union republics, and look at the disintegration systemically and comprehensively. In other
  words, the former consider disintegration to be a random phenomenon generated mainly by
  the events of 1985–1991, while the latter consider it to be a natural phenomenon with deep
  historical, economic, political, cultural, and social prerequisites and causes.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by grant No. 20-09-00353 from Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  “The disintegration of the Soviet Union in the human dimension: an interdisciplinary study”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national and foreign historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collapse of the USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prerequisites and factors of disintegration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Disintegration of the USSR in Historiography: Collapse or Dissolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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