disintegration

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“There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs,” he said during a March news briefing.

From Los Angeles Times

The failure of Kornilov’s plan also accelerated the disintegration of the Russian army.

From New York Times

He was drawing on a model of cyclical integration and disintegration first introduced in Jack Goldstone's 1991 "Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World."

From Salon

“The Pentagon Papers affair, in short, led directly to the unraveling and final disintegration of the Nixon presidency,” Pentagon Papers historian David Rudenstine concluded in his 1996 book “The Day the Presses Stopped.”

From Los Angeles Times

In a country so well-known for regular political crises, a government collapse triggered by the disintegration of one of the coalition partners does not seem such an unlikely scenario.

From BBC