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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... peasantry and the new class of petty Party bureaucrats , whose sole function was to maintain control . Stalin's aim ... peasant , " the designa- tion for a farmer who owned his own land but couldn't afford to pay others to work for him ...
... peasantry and the new class of petty Party bureaucrats , whose sole function was to maintain control . Stalin's aim ... peasant , " the designa- tion for a farmer who owned his own land but couldn't afford to pay others to work for him ...
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... peasant moved from czarist serfdom to enforced collectivization with barely time to learn the difference . But Gorbachev is from a different strain than the average Soviet . He is in many ways an aberration . The Soviet people have ...
... peasant moved from czarist serfdom to enforced collectivization with barely time to learn the difference . But Gorbachev is from a different strain than the average Soviet . He is in many ways an aberration . The Soviet people have ...
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... peasant backgrounds . Yakovlev was born in December 1923 in a tiny village near Yaroslavl , an ancient town on the Volga River . " This peasant origin always leaves a trace , " Yakovlev told me . " I think that country people are more ...
... peasant backgrounds . Yakovlev was born in December 1923 in a tiny village near Yaroslavl , an ancient town on the Volga River . " This peasant origin always leaves a trace , " Yakovlev told me . " I think that country people are more ...
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COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
III | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
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