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Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War is a global real-time political strategy game in which you lead the USSR through its final decade. You manage the economy, foreign relations and domestic policy, and deal with countries around the world through diplomacy or proxy wars. Your decisions shape the nation’s direction, with dozens of possible endings.

The Soviet Union in crisis

The USSR faces pressure from groups and individuals who want to return to the past, pursue cautious reforms or make radical changes. You guide the country through political crisis by conducting scientific research, managing finances and deciding whether to introduce social reforms and free elections or reverse liberal policies. You can fine-tune Soviet legislation and reorganize the state.

The game includes historical and alternate-history events. You can pursue Perestroika or avoid it, seek friendship with the West or confront the United States, follow a path of neo-imperialism or choose another course. Your decisions can preserve the union, lead it toward collapse or create a different future for the country.

Shape the country

As General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, you can choose from a range of political and national projects:

• Carry out Perestroika or leave it unstarted.
• Reorganize the USSR, build OGAS or establish a united world state.
• Pursue world communist revolution or build a capitalist system intended to surpass competitors in the West and East.
• Revise Soviet laws to create a new state, or shape the country according to your own vision.
• Control the state budget and pursue scientific goals, including building the Soviet Internet, continuing the space race, and reaching the Moon and Mars.
• Conduct diplomacy with the West, China and dozens of other states, choosing hostility or friendship.
• Revive former states, liberate small peoples around the world or create new countries.
• Intervene in international events and the course of world history.