# The Disintegration of the Monolith

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- Book: [The Disintegration of the Monolith](https://www.bookquiver.com/boris-kagarlitsky/the-disintegration-of-the-monolith) ([The Disintegration of the Monolith.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/boris-kagarlitsky/the-disintegration-of-the-monolith.md))
- Authors: [Boris Kagarlitsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/boris-kagarlitsky)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-08-6091-573-7
- Pages: 176
- Published: 1993-01-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite. Kagarlitsky...