The Last Empire

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history ( Wall Street Journal ) On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the