Understand the seismic shift of the Soviet Union collapse with Graeme Gill’s seminal analysis of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s disintegration. This essential political science book meticulously traces the internal institutional dynamics from 1985 to 1991, revealing the pressures that dismantled a superpower’s ruling party. Ideal for students and scholars of Russian history and post-Soviet studies in India, it offers profound insights into the mechanics of single-party system failure. A vital resource for grasping geopolitical transitions and the end of the Cold War era.