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 134
... economic system was approaching its limits , " is the gentle locution by which Igor An- dropov means to say that growth in the Soviet socialist economy virtually stopped as early as the middle of the 1970s - ten years before Gorbachev ...
... economic system was approaching its limits , " is the gentle locution by which Igor An- dropov means to say that growth in the Soviet socialist economy virtually stopped as early as the middle of the 1970s - ten years before Gorbachev ...
Page 167
... economies and even in the West . Close interest was shown in the Hungarian economic experi- ment . Gorbachev " was strangely fond of academics , " notes a liberal consultant to the Central Committee . " He thought they could actu- ally ...
... economies and even in the West . Close interest was shown in the Hungarian economic experi- ment . Gorbachev " was strangely fond of academics , " notes a liberal consultant to the Central Committee . " He thought they could actu- ally ...
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... economic help , credits , and technical assistance to " tide over his economy for two years while its reform program comes into effect . " A week later the world's seven richest democracies met for an economic summit in the de- flated ...
... economic help , credits , and technical assistance to " tide over his economy for two years while its reform program comes into effect . " A week later the world's seven richest democracies met for an economic summit in the de- flated ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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