Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His FailureAn award-winning foreign correspondent gives us a brilliant and timely portrait of the complex man who changed world history. The author of the acclaimed Russia: The People and the Power, Robert Kaiser also was Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post for several years. |
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Moscow at Last | 49 |
Struggle for Power | 73 |
Slow Beginnings | 93 |
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