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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... Shevardnadze , a former territorial Party boss from the republic of Georgia with a bland , hangdog face . Gorbachev and Shevardnadze had a close friendship dating back to the days when they met as teenage activists in regional Communist ...
... Shevardnadze , a former territorial Party boss from the republic of Georgia with a bland , hangdog face . Gorbachev and Shevardnadze had a close friendship dating back to the days when they met as teenage activists in regional Communist ...
Page 175
... Shevardnadze , like Gorbachev , had made his share of dissembling speeches that helped him thrive in the moral waste- land of the Brezhnev era . ( Later admitting he had praised the Party leadership in those years , a tearful Shevardnadze ...
... Shevardnadze , like Gorbachev , had made his share of dissembling speeches that helped him thrive in the moral waste- land of the Brezhnev era . ( Later admitting he had praised the Party leadership in those years , a tearful Shevardnadze ...
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... Shevardnadze would later acknowledge . He and Gorba- chev and Yakovlev may have made the same argument inside the Politburo back in 1988 that Shevardnadze mounted at the Commu- nist party Congress in July of 1990 : " The concern over ...
... Shevardnadze would later acknowledge . He and Gorba- chev and Yakovlev may have made the same argument inside the Politburo back in 1988 that Shevardnadze mounted at the Commu- nist party Congress in July of 1990 : " The concern over ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
III | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
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