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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... socialist system itself might be to blame . " If you listen to him today , " says Gerasimov of Gorbachev , " he says that he thinks the socialist idea is valid , and that his job is to give socialist ideas second breath . " The suave ...
... socialist system itself might be to blame . " If you listen to him today , " says Gerasimov of Gorbachev , " he says that he thinks the socialist idea is valid , and that his job is to give socialist ideas second breath . " The suave ...
Page 268
... Socialist Gorbachev believed , right up until 1990 , that the titanic problems his country faced could be solved by mass psychotherapy . His faith in man as a rational being , eminently improvable , who , given the proper conditions ...
... Socialist Gorbachev believed , right up until 1990 , that the titanic problems his country faced could be solved by mass psychotherapy . His faith in man as a rational being , eminently improvable , who , given the proper conditions ...
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... socialist ideal - it's a snake pit of hypocrisy . Stretched over this pit of hypocrisy , obscuring the depths of its lies , is only a rainbow of beautiful words and utopian dreams . And this is where Gorbachev's romantic nature comes ...
... socialist ideal - it's a snake pit of hypocrisy . Stretched over this pit of hypocrisy , obscuring the depths of its lies , is only a rainbow of beautiful words and utopian dreams . And this is where Gorbachev's romantic nature comes ...
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