It Fell Apart: An Everyday History of the USSR and Russia, 1985–1999

"She fell apart" is a uniquely character-driven collection of the material included within it, created based on content from the eponymous VKontakte community by journalists Yevgeny Buzhev, Stanislav Kuvaldín, and Dmitry Okrest. In this book, you’ll find journalistic articles and memoir-style interviews from people of the most varied professions—from the first deputies and entrepreneurs to sociologists and mountaineers—about everyday Soviet and Russian history from 1985 to 1999. You’ll see the era of "perestroika and glasnost," the collapse of the USSR, the putsch and the 90s through the eyes of eyewitnesses—which, of course, will help broaden the understanding of a time that’s so ambiguous for our country and will make you look at it from different angles. The edition also includes photographs from archives, making the trip into the recent past even more exciting!