01389cam a2200265 i 4500 283094084 TxAuBib 20020411120000.0 020411s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 92-33436 9781879383111 $15.00 187938311X $15.00 TxAuBib rda Urban, G. R, 1921- End of Empire : The Demise of the Soviet Union / G.R. Urban in conversation with leading thinkers of our time. Washington, D.C. : The American University Press, 1993. 238 p : hardbound. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-227) and index. After nearly a half-century of fear and uncertainty, the world's consciousness is no longer dominated by the Cold War. The dawn of the nuclear era and the superpower rivalry changed forever our world and the way we look at it, and the upheaval seen in the former Soviet Union and its satellite states has done likewise. How did the USSR, one of two most powerful nations in the world a scant few years ago, lose its hold on Eastern Europe and, eventually, its grip on itself? 20020411. Soviet Union History 1985-1991.