L’inizio della fine. La decomposizione imperiale sovietica nel Baltico, fra violenza, ragion di Stato e arcana imperii = The beginning of the end. Soviet imperial collapse in the Baltic region: violence, reason of state and arcana imperii

The violence unleashed and stimulated thirty-five years ago in the Baltic States by the centralized power of the Soviet Union, personified by Gorbachev, to prevent them from regaining their independence, can now help us understand the long process of imperial disintegration still underway and the re