The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Serhii Plokhy

544 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
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On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one ...

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