The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Serhii Plokhy

520 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced

Description

On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world’s sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turnin...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 56 reviews

Moods

informative 100%
reflective 33%
tense 33%

Pace

medium 100%

Average rating

3.97

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.