Never mind the fact that the Crimea, the area in immediate question, was Russian for over two centuries before Khrushchev literally gifted it to Ukraine in 1954 as part of a USSR internal political deal. And before the Russians, it was part of the Ottoman Empire, and before that, the city-state of Venice. The Crimea is more Russian than Hawaii is American, by a long shot, and the Russians are taking it back. Putin is reversing Khrushchev's folly during a moment of Western weakness.
But this is a great book and I can't recommend it highly enough.
