Imperial gamble
Subtitle: Putin, Ukraine, and the new Cold War
By: Marvin Kalb
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780815726647
Subjects: Annexation to Russia; Nationalism; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crimea : from Catherine the Great to Vladimir the gambler --; title: The end, or the beginning, of history --; title: Putin's March 18 history lesson --; title: Kievan Rus' : the "first Russia" --; title: The Mongol legacy : the fall of Kiev and the rise of Moscow --; title: The star Tsars : Peter and Catherine --; title: A Ukrainian Volk emerges, on paper --; title: In revolution, the birth of modern Ukraine --; title: Lenin and the "National Minorities" Conundrum --; title: World War II: a Ukrainian horror --; title: Between 1945 and 1991 --; title: Yeltsin versus Gorbachev --; title: "Ukraine has arrived!" --; title: A very certain future --; title: The war in Ukraine --; title: The tragedy of a Malaysian airliner --; title: "Masters of the taiga!" --; title: Whither Ukraine? Whither Russia? --; title: A look back to look ahead.