The conventional story of the end of the cold war focuses on the geopolitical power struggle between the United States and the USSR: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign against communism, outspent the USSR, and forced Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." In There Is No Freedom Without Bread! , a daring revisionist account of that seminal year, the Russian-born historian Constantine Pleshakov proposes a very different interpretation...