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For some four and a half decades after 1945 the Cold War dominated the landscape of European affairs. However, in the space of a few short years after 1985, Europe’s economic, political and military division was overturned. The suddenness and scale of this process owe almost everything to developments initiated in the then Soviet Union. The opening to the West under Mikhail Gorbachev and Moscow’s consent to the removal of communism in east-central Europe (ECE) were defining events of the Cold War’s end. The unintended collapse of the Soviet Union itself in 1991 meanwhile served to demonstrate still further that, at that point in time, Moscow constituted a pivot around which much of Europe’s history was unfolding.
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Webber, M. (2000). Introduction: Russia and Europe — Conflict or Cooperation?. In: Russia and Europe: Conflict or Cooperation?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333978047_1
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