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Imperial gamble : Putin, Ukraine, and the new cold war /

Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalb, Marvin L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 uncertain future
  • The war in Ukraine
  • The tragedy of a Malaysian airliner
  • "Master of the taiga?"
  • Whither Ukraine? Whither Russia?
  • A look back to look ahead.