Andrei Amalrik
Soviet writer, historian and dissident best known for the 1969 essay "Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?", which predicted the USSR's collapse. He faced persecution by Soviet authorities and later lived in exile.
Books
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1. Will The Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?
An Essay on the Future of the USSR
A dissident's prophetic political analysis arguing that the Soviet system was fatally weakened by economic stagnation, bureaucratic sclerosis, nationalist tensions and moral and intellectual decay; it surveys internal contradictions and possible future scenarios—reform, coup, war, or peaceful disintegration—concluding that the existing order was unlikely to survive long without major upheaval, and urges Western policymakers to recognize and respond to the regime's deep vulnerabilities.