Last of the Empires: A History of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991

by John Keep

Book Overview

Designed with the general reader in mind, this clearly written narrative history of the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to its collapse in 1991 provides an integrated introduction to the "Last of the Empires." There were more than one hundred nationalities in the USSR; Keep deals with those that held union-republic status, especially the Baltic peoples and those of Central Asia. His approach is to exclude foreign affairs and defense policy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192192558
• ISBN13: 9780192192554
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"