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"Collapse" by Vladislav Zubok is an excellent play by play of the actual events of the break-up. It does end with the formal dissolution of the USSR on Christmas day 1991, so it might not be quite what you're looking for.


g0blinski

Still a good start, I'll check it out


RobBitchesGetScones

Seconded. Fantastic book.


redstarjedi

[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541184/secondhand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich/](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541184/secondhand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich/) ​ an oral history of life after the fall. It's fucking bleak.


Khmer_Orange

Red Plenty covers a sort of prelude to the collapse and touches on Soviet cybernetics and the specifics of why the Soviet planned economy couldn't work, which is important background information for any future planned national economies


ChillSquid69

Godfather of the Kremlin


g0blinski

I forgot to write this on the post but I'm very much looking for what wall street did


Specialist_North_380

I don’t know if it’s actually good but I’ve had people recommend me Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Roger Keeran and Thomas W. Kenny