Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia
- ISBN-10
- 0393322262
- ISBN-13
- 9780393322262
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Stephen F. Cohen
Description
Reveals what really happened in Russia following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the complicity of U.S. policy in a great human tragedy. Reprint.
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- 2000
- 304 pages
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