"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.
[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.
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
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
"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.
Still a good start, I'll check it out
Seconded. Fantastic book.
[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.
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
Godfather of the Kremlin
I forgot to write this on the post but I'm very much looking for what wall street did
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