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12-30-16

Review of Constantine Pleshakov's "The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations."

by Murray Polner

What Pleshakov does exceedingly well in "The Crimean Nexus" is provide Americans with a clear-eyed, insightful alternative to our customary good guy/bad guy imagery, which lays all the blame on Putin.

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Review of Constantine Pleshakov's "The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations."

by Murray Polner