Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Those of us who grew up in the West in the 1980's during the Cold War and saw live on our television sets the transformation and fall of the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact Communist Governments, we had all always grown up led to believe that those moments in history were proof that marxism and communism was always doomed to fail. Moreover, we grew up being led and told to admire the leader of the URSS who has made possible the change, Gobarchov and his policies of Perestroika and glasnost. Seldom, if ever, has any western writer or media outlet done a serious and deep investigation and analysis of what led to the fall of the USSR, this is what this book does. It is a deep analysis of the inexplicable, unjustified, unnecessary and arbitrary economical and political decisions made by Gorbachov and his inner circle, in particular during the last half of the 1980's, that led to the swift disintegration of the second most powerful economy in the world, to the rise of nationalism that were long forgotten and ultimately to the disappearance of the communist world and with it the power balance of the Cold War. Socialism and all its ideals and principles had been betrayed. History has proved that the world was a better place, the workers across the world even in capitalist economies had achieved rights that have now been stripped away, the fear of nuclear war and the mutual fear/respect between the two blocks kept a relative world peace that now seems from other generations. The fall of the USSR, motivated and accelerated by bizarre policies was a betrayal to everything it was meant to be and was for over 80 years.