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Origins of the Ukraine War & What Comes Next | Serhii Plokhy

Hidden Forces

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The Rise of the Russian Elite in the Cold War

Russian elites began to formulate an idea of what Russia's place in the world should be. The basic ideas were already there back in 1991, at the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In Russia from the very beginning, the Commonwealth of Independent States was viewed as an instrument for maintaining Russian influence and geopolitical control over post-Soviet space.

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