’The USSR broke up because it was what President Reagan called “an evil empire”.’ Discuss. 1.there are four readings that must be referred: -Applebaum, A. 2012: Iron Curtain, the Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-56. London, Allen Lane. -Cox, M., ed., 1998. Rethinking the Soviet collapse: Sovietology, the death of communism […]