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"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, to agree o... Full description
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.