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The last empire

The last empire

Serhii Plokhy · 2014 · 489 pages

NationalismCold WarForeign relationsHistoryCold warSoviet union, politics and government, 1985-1991

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A prize-winning historian describes the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, dispelling the myth that the event was spurred on in part by the close relationship between George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. 20,000 first printing.

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