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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 852 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR.
"When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism....
Series
East European monographs volume no. 481
Publisher
East European Monographs
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
vi, 452 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled with failed coups d'etat and political intrigue. Honing in on this previously disregarded but crucial period and using recently declassified documents...
Author
Series
Russian Research Center studies volume 91
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
x, 352 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Perennial Library
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
New, updated ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Perestroika (restructuring) presents Gorbachev's aspirations and major policies. "Democratization" of management and society is a central if undefined goal. The author admits past stagnation in domestic, and mistakes in foreign, policy. Instead of attaining communism by the end of the century, he aspires for the U.S.S.R. to reach the "world level" of science and technologyappealing to Westerners. But Perestroika reflects the limitations of present...
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