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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... foreign policy goal : ridding 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 ...
... foreign policy goal : ridding 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 ...
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... foreign minister as " following a very Christian altruistic approach to the world . ” Not always . Shevardnadze , like Gorbachev , had made his share of dissembling speeches that helped him thrive in the moral waste- land of the ...
... foreign minister as " following a very Christian altruistic approach to the world . ” Not always . Shevardnadze , like Gorbachev , had made his share of dissembling speeches that helped him thrive in the moral waste- land of the ...
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... foreign policy spokes- man , Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton , spoke volumes about the shift of axis in the post - Cold War world : " I'm not saying that it's George Bush's fault , and I'm not saying that we have become a nonpower ...
... foreign policy spokes- man , Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton , spoke volumes about the shift of axis in the post - Cold War world : " I'm not saying that it's George Bush's fault , and I'm not saying that we have become a nonpower ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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