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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok memoir Sergei Medvedev argues that thisShortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the