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#1 On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered his last speech as president of the Soviet Union. He signed the papers that would formally dissolve the Soviet Union, and began to speak. His voice was soft and forced at first, but it became more controlled as he went on.
#2 The country that had come into existence after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 had...
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The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently expansionary and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those days to the autocratic police state of Putin new Russia? The Invention of Russia reaches back to the darkest days of the Cold War to tell the story of this stealthy counterrevolution. With the deep insight only possible of a native son, Arkady...