Imperial gamble : Putin, Ukraine, and the new cold war /
Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine....
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press
[2015]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt15hvrbc |
Table of Contents:
- 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.