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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... writers and scientists of the seventies - Solzhenit- syn , Sakharov , and others . " But here you should understand the personal drama of my father , " appeals the son . " By 1982 [ when Andropov became general secretary ] , he was ...
... writers and scientists of the seventies - Solzhenit- syn , Sakharov , and others . " But here you should understand the personal drama of my father , " appeals the son . " By 1982 [ when Andropov became general secretary ] , he was ...
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... writers , editors , journalists , novelists and poets , TV producers , filmmakers , artists , scientists , professors - about five or six thousand people in all . Known as the intelligentsia , it is a uniquely powerful force in Russia ...
... writers , editors , journalists , novelists and poets , TV producers , filmmakers , artists , scientists , professors - about five or six thousand people in all . Known as the intelligentsia , it is a uniquely powerful force in Russia ...
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... writers began pushing the boundaries of the social sciences , disciplines that had been gutted in the 1960s . They ... writers of perestroika be- longed to the Writers ' Union , an old Stalinist relic whose rules and membership are ...
... writers began pushing the boundaries of the social sciences , disciplines that had been gutted in the 1960s . They ... writers of perestroika be- longed to the Writers ' Union , an old Stalinist relic whose rules and membership are ...
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