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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... apparat , which prepared a draft answer that then went back to the Politburo . Even in closed meetings of the conservative three - hundred - member Central Committee , no one wanted to take any responsibility or initiative ; its members ...
... apparat , which prepared a draft answer that then went back to the Politburo . Even in closed meetings of the conservative three - hundred - member Central Committee , no one wanted to take any responsibility or initiative ; its members ...
Page 252
... apparat out the door . That June the first experimental multicandidate elections were held in local districts , and the Party apparat began to feel the people's displea- sure . Inevitably , as Gorbachev struggled with writing ...
... apparat out the door . That June the first experimental multicandidate elections were held in local districts , and the Party apparat began to feel the people's displea- sure . Inevitably , as Gorbachev struggled with writing ...
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... apparat and state apparat ( meaning ministry bureaucrats ) . But those are only the major participants . " Mafia ” is an enormous , intercon- nected chain . To understand how power in the Soviet government . actually operates , imagine ...
... apparat and state apparat ( meaning ministry bureaucrats ) . But those are only the major participants . " Mafia ” is an enormous , intercon- nected chain . To understand how power in the Soviet government . actually operates , imagine ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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