New scholarship pierces the Brezhnev doctrine and the Gorbachev vision by Vladimir Nalevka Czech historian Karel Durman’s extensive new work on Soviet history, Utek od praporu: Kreml a krize imperia 1964-1991 (Flight From the Flags: The Kremlin and the Crisis of the Empire 1964-1991) fundamentally broadens our understanding of the corrosion and gradual breakup of […]