Every day this week, Foreign Policy is featuring an interview with one of the finalists for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the year’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs, jointly sponsored by FP and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Today’s finalist is Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy, whose book, The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, offers a new interpretation of the collapse of the U.S.S.R., assigning a prominent role to Plokhy’s native Ukraine.
The jury citation for Plokhy’s book is below:
The final months in the life of …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
