Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

by Lawrence Scott Sheets

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“[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporter
 
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countries began to shed totalitarianism while other sought to revive their own dead empires or were led by ex-Soviet leaders who built equally or even more repressive political machines. Since the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0307395839
  • ISBN13 9780307395832
  • Publish Date 30 October 2012 (first published 1 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country IN
  • Imprint Random House USA Inc