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Collapse How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond

A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor...

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was introduced as a newly released Yale University Press book that offers a gripping account of the Soviet Union's collapse, linking past tensions to today's RussiaUkraine situation.

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I'll start with one that's very topical right now and it's a book by Vladislav Zubok called Collapse. It just came out in November with Yale University Press and Zubok is a historian at the LSE, the L...

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It was introduced as a newly released Yale University Press book that offers a gripping account of the Soviet Union's collapse, linking past tensions to today's RussiaUkraine situation.

"

I'll start with one that's very topical right now and it's a book by Vladislav Zubok called Collapse. It just came out in November with Yale University Press and Zubok is a historian at the LSE, the London School of Economics and he's written this really fantastic and very gripping book on the end of the Soviet Union.

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