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The East European revolutions of 1989–92, and the second Russian revolution initiated by President Gorbachev in 1985 and completed in 1992, dwarfed all previous European revolutions (e.g. 1789, 1848 and 1917) in their international significance. The disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the sudden ending of the Cold War were widely hailed as the outbreak of peace, but they have left a world which is probably more unstable than it has ever been since Stalin died in 1953.
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Clutterbuck, R. (1995). Russia and East Europe. In: Drugs, Crime and Corruption. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376472_17
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