Eight Pieces of Empire A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse

Name: Eight Pieces of Empire A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
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ISBN: 9780307395832

ISBN-10: 0307395839

ISBN-13: 9780307395832

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Authors: Lawrence Scott Sheets

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A two-decade journey, panoramic in scope yet intimate in detail, through the hopes, sorrows, and conflagrations of an unraveled empire and the people living in it.Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. Lawrence Scott Sheets, who was then living in Moscow as a young foreign correspondent, went to the center of the capital to witness the response. “In the streets around Red Square,” he writes, “life went on as usual. One would not have known that 300 million people had just become citizens of other countries.”But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the…

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List price: $29.99
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.13" wide x 7.94" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



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Farewell Leningrad, Farewell Empire (1989-1991)


A Civil War Outside My Door


Our Communal


Tears of a KGB Man


A Bigamist Bandit and a Button Maker


Sickle and Hammer Down: An Empire's Last Hours



Georgia: Anarchy in Paradise (1992-1996)


Nobody Started This War


Exodus


Buried Five Times: Insurgents in Flat Black Nylons


A Word About War



Azerbaijan and Armenia at War (1993-1996)


Azerbaijan: Lifesaving Carpets


Armenia: A Faded Tintype of Mount Ararat


Azerbaijan: The Shish Kebab War and Eastern Democracy



Chechnya: Echoes of the Deportation (1993-2004)


Grenade, Lightly Tossed


Grozny


Three Libertine Sabotage Women


A Disappearance


Three Boys Seeking Martyrdom



Resurrections: the Abdication of Atheism (1998-2005)


A Nameless Bunch of Bones


A KGB Church and Latter-day Saints



Central Asia: Rise of the Red Sultans (2001-2002)


Uzbekistan: I Cannot Answer That Question


An Afghan Interlude


The Island of Dr. Moreau



Revolutions, Reindeer, and Radiation (2003-2011)


The Flaming Recliner


Last Song of the Ultas


Home, Sweet Chernobyl


The Road to the Schoolhouse



An Empire Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography