@misc{Franzke1995,
  author    = {Franzke, Jochen},
  title     = {Imperium unter dem roten Banner : {\"U}berlegungen zum Ende der Sowjetunion},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11050},
  year      = {1995},
  abstract  = {The existence of the Soviet Union was a remarkable anomalie in the history of the 20th century, which was also characterized by the collapse of multinational and colonial empires. Starting with the structural definitions of empires, the author describes the particularities of the Soviet empire. He analyzes the order, ideology and culture of the Soviet Empire. Looking for the reasons of its collapse, he presents a genesis of the longterm and short-term reasons. He is focusing on the breakdown of the post-totalitarian Leviathan, the cultural decline, the renaissance of nationalism and of the imperial overstretching. Finally he asseses the role of the policy of Perestroika in the breakdown of the Soviet Empire in the beginning of the 1990s.},
  language  = {de}
}