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The Oil and the Glory

Hardcover • 2007 • English

The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea

By Steve LeVine

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Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn’t get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world’s leading nations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billion barrels of proven oil reserves at stake, and a tense geopolitical struggle began. The main players were Moscow and Washing...Show more

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ISBN

9780375506147

Publisher

Random House

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

The Oil and the Glory

Format

Hardcover

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