On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the triumph of democratic values over communism, took cen...
On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent fall of the Soviet Union. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the triumph of democratic values over communism, took center stage in American public discourse and has persisted for decades--with disastrous consequences for American standing in the world. As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the United States. Bush, in fact, was firmly committed to supporting Gorbachev as he attempted to hold together the USSR in the face of growing independence movements in its republics. Drawing on recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months, providing invaluable insight into the origins of the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the outset of the most dangerous crisis in East-West relations since the end of the Cold War.
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Serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. A recipient of Harvard University's Walter Channing Cabot award and author of Yalta: The Price of Peace, Plokhy lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
《大国崩溃——苏联解体的台前幕后》的英文原版The Last Empire - The Final Days of the Soviet Union最早于2014年出版。得益于大量机密文件公开，作者获得了来自中央情报局等的第一手资料，通过长篇叙事展现了1991年苏联解体的前后的政治斗争。 全书分为第六章，可以大致分为...
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14 有用 Biomass 2017-02-04 01:13:25
苏联的最后四个月（死得好
0 有用 老魁 2022-12-14 13:13:10 澳大利亚
精彩的内幕和细节描写，还原了819政变之后的4个月时间。直到11月底，苏联的迅速瓦解都不是必然会发生的事。情势的急转直下，揭示了政治充满了戏剧性和不可预测性的本质。
0 有用 人间别久不成悲 2023-06-24 23:44:34 新疆
没有突如其来的解体，只有解体突如其来的爆发
0 有用 夏冰雹 2020-03-15 14:11:18
本书客观评价老布什时期美国在苏联解体中扮演的角色
0 有用 淮海张三 2022-02-23 19:38:24
史料价值十足，宣传和事实有时不一样，掌握话语权就是有优势
0 有用 人间别久不成悲 2023-06-24 23:44:34 新疆
没有突如其来的解体，只有解体突如其来的爆发
0 有用 老魁 2022-12-14 13:13:10 澳大利亚
精彩的内幕和细节描写，还原了819政变之后的4个月时间。直到11月底，苏联的迅速瓦解都不是必然会发生的事。情势的急转直下，揭示了政治充满了戏剧性和不可预测性的本质。
0 有用 北溟鱼 2022-04-16 20:53:47
虽然有美化美国之嫌，但将苏联最后的日子写的娓娓道来，引人入胜，可堪一部优秀的历史著作
0 有用 淮海张三 2022-02-23 19:38:24
史料价值十足，宣传和事实有时不一样，掌握话语权就是有优势
0 有用 Pascano 2020-03-18 00:11:52
杰出的历史写作