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In 1945 the Russians emerged victorious from the greatest war they had ever fought. Building on an older Russian tradition of expansion, buffer states were made of eastern Poland, Bessarabia, northern Bukovina, eastern Karelia, Ruthenia and northeast Prussia (Map XV). For the next forty years, eastern Europe remained in the grip of the Soviet Union.
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See Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, translated by Strobe Talbot, Boston, 1970.
See S. White, Gorbachev and After, Cambridge, 1991.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Perestroika, New York, 1987; also On My Country and the World, New York, 1999.
See W. Laquer, Soviet Union 2000: Reform or Revolution? New York, 1990.
See T.G. Ash, The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, New York, 1984.
See S. Ramet, Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, Bloomington, Indiana, 1992.
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Woodruff, W. (2002). Communism and its Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe. In: A Concise History of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554665_17
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