The last empire the final days of the Soviet Union
"Drawing on recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months and argues that the key to the Soviet collapse was the inability of the two largest Soviet republics, Russia and Ukraine,...
| Main Author: | Plokhy, Serhii, 1957- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- The last summit. Meeting in Moscow ; The party crasher ; Chicken Kiev
- The tanks of August. The prisoner of the Crimea ; The Russian rebel ; Freedom's victory
- A countercoup. The resurgence of Russia ; Independent Ukraine ; Saving the empire
- Soviet disunion. Washington's dilemma ; The Russian ark ; The survivor
- Vox populi. Anticipation ; The Ukrainian referendum ; The Slavic trinity
- Farewell to the empire. Out of the woods ; The birth of Eurasia ; Christmas in Moscow.