This year, which has been dominated by news from the Middle East, also marks the twentieth anniversary of the dissolution of the USSR. There may be more in common between the two than first meets the eye. Behind the Desert Storm, a new book by Russian historian Pavel Stroilov that has just been published in Britain—and that has already become a source of controversy—sheds light on top-secret Kremlin documents and suggests that many of today’s problems in the Middle East have their origins in the waning years of the Soviet empire....
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