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THE LAST EMPIRE - SERHII PLOKHY KARTONIERT (TB)

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¿¿t and political intrigue. Honing in on this previously disregarded but crucial period and
using recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants  he
shatters the established myths of 1991 and presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet
Union¿s final months. Plokhy argues that contrary to the triumphalist Western narrative  George
H. W. Bush desperately wanted to preserve the Soviet Union and keep Gorbachev in power  and
that it was Ukraine and not the US that played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet
Union. The consequences of those five months and the myth-making that has since surrounded them
are still being felt in Crimea  Russia  the US  and Europe today. With its spellbinding
narrative and strikingly fresh perspective  The Last Empire is the essential account of one of
the most important watershed periods in world history  and is indispensable reading for anyone
seeking to make sense of international politics today.

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