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The Last Empire The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Serhii Plokhy

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 di...

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Plokhy's concise history of the Soviet Union's dissolution was recommended as a key read for understanding Ukraine.

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I was actually thinking of three of the best books about Ukraine. The Last Empire. It's a fairly short history of the dissolution of the Soviet Union from a postcolonial perspective.

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Plokhy's concise history of the Soviet Union's dissolution was recommended as a key read for understanding Ukraine.

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I was actually thinking of three of the best books about Ukraine. The Last Empire. It's a fairly short history of the dissolution of the Soviet Union from a postcolonial perspective.

The Rest Is History

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They mentioned it as a Ukrainianhistorian's book about Ukraine and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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There's a book by Sirke Plocky, a Ukrainian historian called The Last Empire, I think it is about Ukraine and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

— Episode: 162. Putin's Russia

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They mentioned it as a Ukrainianhistorian's book about Ukraine and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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There's a book by Sirke Plocky, a Ukrainian historian called The Last Empire, I think it is about Ukraine and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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