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Book

Imperial gamble : Putin, Ukraine, and the new Cold War

Call Number

  • 947.7 K142 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.

Physical Description

xix, 287 pages ; 25 cm

Contents

  • Crimea : from Catherine the Great to Vladimir the gambler
  • The end, or the beginning, of history
  • Putin's March 18 history lesson
  • Kievan Rus' : the "first Russia"
  • The Mongol legacy : the fall of Kiev and the rise of Moscow
  • The star Tsars : Peter and Catherine
  • A Ukrainian Volk emerges, on paper
  • In revolution, the birth of modern Ukraine
  • Lenin and the "National Minorities" Conundrum
  • World War II: a Ukrainian horror
  • Between 1945 and 1991
  • Yeltsin versus Gorbachev
  • "Ukraine has arrived!"
  • A very certain future
  • The war in Ukraine
  • The tragedy of a Malaysian airliner
  • "Masters of the taiga!"
  • Whither Ukraine? Whither Russia?
  • A look back to look ahead.

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