Showing The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea by Steve Levine

Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub Date: 2007-10-1 Pages: 470 Publisher: Random House Remote. forbidding. and volatile. the Caspian Sea longtantalized the world with its vast oil reserves But outsiders. blocked by the closed Soviet system. couldnt get to it. . Then theSoviet Union collapsed. and a wholesale rush into the regionerupted. Along with oilmen. representatives of the worlds leadingnations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billionbarrels of proven oil reserves at stake. and a tense geopoliticalstruggle began. The main players were Moscow and Washington-theformer seeking to retain control of its satellite states. and thelatter intent on dislodging Russia to the benefit of theWest. The Oil and the Glory is the gripping account of this latestphase in the epochal struggle for control of the earths blackgold. Steve LeVine. who was based in the region for The ...