Last of the Empires
Subtitle: A History of the Soviet Union 1945-1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780192803191
First sentence: When cannon fired salutes across the land to celebrate VE-Day in May 1945, Soviet citizens had every ground for pride in their achievement and relief that the epic four-year struggle was at an end.