Imperial Gamble : Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War /
"In Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War, Marvin Kalb brings to life the geography, power politics, and history of Ukraine -- once known as Kieven Rus', or the 'First Russia.' He takes a critical look at the tortured history of post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine, and...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.