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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... Western Europe of U.S. missiles and armed forces and persuading Reagan to pull back on his pet Star Wars program . Despite her lifelong enmity for everything the Soviet Union stood for , and her previous refusal even to send her foreign ...
... Western Europe of U.S. missiles and armed forces and persuading Reagan to pull back on his pet Star Wars program . Despite her lifelong enmity for everything the Soviet Union stood for , and her previous refusal even to send her foreign ...
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... Western political structures . But when he went to the West , since he is a very lively person and very ... Western democracies . Gorbachev does not discourage comparisons between himself and Peter the Great . His yearning for the Soviet ...
... Western political structures . But when he went to the West , since he is a very lively person and very ... Western democracies . Gorbachev does not discourage comparisons between himself and Peter the Great . His yearning for the Soviet ...
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... Western allies , in- cluding Japan , would be likely to follow . Indeed , in early summer 1990 , West Germany together with France pushed a $ 15 - billion aid package from the Western nations to help Gorbachev stir up the stagnant mire ...
... Western allies , in- cluding Japan , would be likely to follow . Indeed , in early summer 1990 , West Germany together with France pushed a $ 15 - billion aid package from the Western nations to help Gorbachev stir up the stagnant mire ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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