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Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxii, 489 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
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 in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse immediately after...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already...
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