Why the USSR collapsed. The leaders of the Union republics recall

The book, initiated by the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, presents 14 large -scale interviews with politicians, who, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, became the first leaders of the new independent states. Versions of events that radically changed the map of the world and the lives of millions of people are divided by Askar Akayev, Leonid Kravchuk, Vitautas Landsbergis, Stanislav Shushkevich, Mircea Snegur, Gennady Burbulis, Akezhaan Kazhegeldin, Arnold Ryutel, Ivar Godmanis, Isa Gambar, Tengiz Sigua, Nazar Suyunov, Vasgenov, Vazgen Manukyan and Akbarshu Iskandarov. Arkady Dubnov, political scientist, expert on the countries of the former USSR, spoke with the leaders of the republics. For all those interested in the political history of the twentieth century