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The USSR fell apart because its monolithic institutions could not accommodate nations--Czechs and Uzbeks, Hungarians and Siberians, Poles and Mongols--whose histories, circumstances and aspirations were radically divergent.

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My last book was about the story behind the Shi'a-Sunni split, and for that, I'd worked closely with the earliest Islamic histories, so I knew the events to which the Koran constantly refers, its frame of reference.

And the second implication is that the world will inevitably, as a consequence, become increasingly unfamiliar to us, because it'll be shaped by cultures and experiences and histories that we are not really familiar with, or conversant with.

We want to go and spend time with the old people and hear their stories and record their oral histories.

Among these kids, I want to connect their families' histories to the bliss of a goal-scorer's run, family like that feeling after the ball beats the goalie, the closest thing going to freedom.

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