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A prescient effort at Kremlinology, this 1984 book predicted the death of Chernenko and rise of Gorbachev to General Secretary a year before it happened. It gets additional credit for recognizing that the Soviet Union had deep fundamental flaws that would soon lead to its fall, as long as the West maintained the pressure that had been increased by Reagan and Thatcher. The media, much of the political establishment and the CIA spectacularly failed to get this right. The book was off by a few year
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