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But Gorbachev, though still a believer in communism, refused to maintain the Soviet empire at the barrel of a gun.

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One, empire was the least original thing that the West did after 1500.

Everybody did empire.

So it really doesn't look like empire is a great explanation for the Great Divergence.

I was a young soldier in the last of the small empire wars of Britain.

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