Imperial gamble : Putin, Ukraine, and the new Cold War
(2015)
By:
Kalb, Marvin L.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
947.7/KALB,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015
DESCRIPTION
xix, 287 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780815726647, 0815726643, 9780815726647
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Crimea : from Catherine the Great to Vladimir the gambler --
End, or the beginning, of history --
Putin's March 18 history lesson --
Kievan Rus' : the "first Russia" --
Mongol legacy : the fall of Kiev and the rise of Moscow --
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 certain future --
War in Ukraine --
Tragedy of a Malaysian airliner --
"Masters of the taiga!" --
Whither Ukraine? Whither Russia? --
A look back to look ahead