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

Author: Kalb, Marvin L.

Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.

Descriptionxix, 287 pages ; 25 cm

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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