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A hapsburg archduke though motivated by a variety of forces tries to create a ukrainian political entity at the beginning of the 20th century instead of at the end when it did happen

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With a text of less than 300 pages snyder takes us through ww1 the fall of the russian empire the nonstop fighting in eastern europe between the wars ww2 the cold war the fall of the soviet union and the subsequent rise of the democratic states comprising the european union

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But russias new government formed on 14 march was struggling to deal with the legacy of an enormous continental empire of which russians were no more than half the population

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Snyder is in that select group of historians such as robert massie and barbara tuchman who know their history and know how to write in a superbly engaging fashion

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For all i have read on causes and consequences of wwi and ii this short book covering one small corner of history helped me frame not so much what happened but how it happened

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Similarly we see how poland was forced into the soviet yoke

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We see how former royals minimized their losses through the intercession of their still enthroned royal relatives

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We see the limits of hitlers control of his killing machine