A review by bluehairedlesbian
The Last Empire - The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Plokhy takes you back to 1991. You are taken into these rooms of these key decisions and how these characters thought using memoirs and interviews. The book focuses on the actual factors that to the collaboration of the Union mentioning key factors that led to the independence vote of in Ukraine. This book scraps the American view of winning the cold war due to the collapse of the USSR and focuses on how Ukraine, Gorbachev and Yeltsin were key actors in the Eastern political field throughout the decline of the union.

Plokhy is an incredible author who tells the story by gripping you into every page. This book was an incredible read! I recommend it to anyone