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A crisis is often described as instability which can lead to abrupt change. Evidently, neither Mikhail Gorbachev nor any other Soviet leader has grappled with this definition. Uninterested in definitions, they simply realise that the Soviet Union is in a state of general crisis.
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© 1990 Uri Ra’anan and Igor Lukes
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Shevchenko, A. (1990). The Soviet Crisis and Foreign Policy Formation. In: Ra’anan, U., Lukes, I. (eds) Gorbachev’s USSR. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11705-5_7
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