Posledniaia imperiia. Padenie Sovetskogo Soiuza [The Last Empire. The Fall of the Soviet Union]

A professor of history at Harvard University about the events of the last five months of the existence of the Soviet empire. Professor of History at Harvard University offers a balanced assessment of the political and economic events that caused and accompanied the death of the USSR and the beginning of the independent life of Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. The book that was published in 2014 this year received two prestigious awards: Pushkin House Russian Book Prize (for the best English-language book about Russia) and Lionel Gelber Prize (for the best documentary book on international relations and politics).