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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalb, Marvin L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.