The Man who Changed the World: The Lives of Mikhail S. GorbachevThe human story of an inner struggle, a struggle that is the culmination of the series of lives Gorbachev has led throughout his career. Presents the first full-scale portrait of this unique figure. |
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... Lieberman . The young Jew had to be brilliant ; Mos- cow State was as anti - Semitic as every other institution and the quota for Jewish students was minuscule . Lieberman , the offspring of a family of Moscow intellectuals , had ...
... Lieberman . The young Jew had to be brilliant ; Mos- cow State was as anti - Semitic as every other institution and the quota for Jewish students was minuscule . Lieberman , the offspring of a family of Moscow intellectuals , had ...
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... Lieberman had hatched a plot . They slipped a " rather hooliganish " note to the professor ; Lieberman claims it was his formulation and Gorbachev wrote it . The note was left unsigned . In front of the entire class , with all 170 ...
... Lieberman had hatched a plot . They slipped a " rather hooliganish " note to the professor ; Lieberman claims it was his formulation and Gorbachev wrote it . The note was left unsigned . In front of the entire class , with all 170 ...
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... Lieberman , who aroused jealousy as the class orator and most highly decorated war veteran . An ugly confrontation took place in a lecture room before Gorba- chev's whole class . One student tried to implicate Lieberman in the Doctors ...
... Lieberman , who aroused jealousy as the class orator and most highly decorated war veteran . An ugly confrontation took place in a lecture room before Gorba- chev's whole class . One student tried to implicate Lieberman in the Doctors ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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