Testing Models of the Collapse of the Soviet Union

• In Event: Contestation and Mobilization

Brief Overview

Formal models of “revolution from above” and “revolution from below” that distinguish between regime change and state collapse are specified and tested for the end of the Soviet Union in 1985-1991

Authors

• Henry E. Brady, University of California-Berkeley

• Cynthia S. Kaplan, University of California-Santa Barbara