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The last empire

Paperback • 2022 • English • 1. edition

The last empire: the final days of the Soviet Union

By Plokhy, Serhii

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BY THE AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2015 On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled with failed coups d'état and political intrigue. ...Show more

Far-left political ideologies and movements
European history
History: specific events and topics

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ISBN

9781780746463

Publisher

Oneworld

Published year

2022

Language

English

Edition

1

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The last empire

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Paperback

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