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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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 ...
Page 336
... Shevardnadze were old when finally they had their day as revolutionaries . Now Gorbachev was nearly sixty , the two faithful members of his troika had already passed into their seventh decade , and time had run out . They had begun ...
... Shevardnadze were old when finally they had their day as revolutionaries . Now Gorbachev was nearly sixty , the two faithful members of his troika had already passed into their seventh decade , and time had run out . They had begun ...
Page 358
... Shevardnadze and economists Nikolai Petrakov and Stanislav Shatalin , Mikhail Sergeyevich was obsessed with the thought of losing power . Even worse was the nightmare of losing power to Boris Yeltsin . He also appeared to have come to ...
... Shevardnadze and economists Nikolai Petrakov and Stanislav Shatalin , Mikhail Sergeyevich was obsessed with the thought of losing power . Even worse was the nightmare of losing power to Boris Yeltsin . He also appeared to have come to ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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