The Man who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. GorbachevMikhail Gorbachev's influence on recent events in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the entire world is nothing short of astounding. But, until now, very little has been known about Gorbachev the man. Gail Sheehy presents the most intimate, comprehensive, and lively account ever published about this intriguing world figure. 16 pages of halftones. |
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... social revolution , " announcing his intention for the first time in his book . Pacesetters like the sociologist Zaslavskaya , who picked up an early copy of Perestroika on travels abroad , were excited by the declaration of a social ...
... social revolution , " announcing his intention for the first time in his book . Pacesetters like the sociologist Zaslavskaya , who picked up an early copy of Perestroika on travels abroad , were excited by the declaration of a social ...
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... social sciences , disciplines that had been gutted in the 1960s . They released statistics that would be of garden variety grimness in the West , but were utterly shocking to the uninformed Soviet public : the high divorce rate , the ...
... social sciences , disciplines that had been gutted in the 1960s . They released statistics that would be of garden variety grimness in the West , but were utterly shocking to the uninformed Soviet public : the high divorce rate , the ...
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... social relations " : Alexander Zinoviev , The Reality of Communism ( London : V. Gollancz , 1984 ) . 146 " Indifference is their chief characteristic " : Author's interview with Soviet novelist Anatoly Pristavkin . Page 148 Andropov ...
... social relations " : Alexander Zinoviev , The Reality of Communism ( London : V. Gollancz , 1984 ) . 146 " Indifference is their chief characteristic " : Author's interview with Soviet novelist Anatoly Pristavkin . Page 148 Andropov ...
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