Part Two

THE UNION COULD HAVE BEEN PRESERVED

In the first part of this book I have written about what perestroika brought to the citizens of the USSR.

Perestroika was unable to give all it might have because of the difficulties encountered in the course of the reforms themselves. And of course, by December 1991, perestroika was scuttled and the Soviet Union was dissolved.

How was all this possible? How did it come about? In this part of the book I will try to answer these questions, which are of interest to many people.