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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... lived up to her reputation as a virago . She com- plained that the last time she saw her son was over three years ago - when he alighted for half an hour in Privolnoye for a " photo opportunity . " Only recently was she able to get a ...
... lived up to her reputation as a virago . She com- plained that the last time she saw her son was over three years ago - when he alighted for half an hour in Privolnoye for a " photo opportunity . " Only recently was she able to get a ...
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... lived in the very last hut , " I was told by Alexan- dra Yakovenko , who lived next door as a girl . " Every evening [ Misha and I went together to fetch the cows from the pasture for the families - this was our childhood . ” In 1929 ...
... lived in the very last hut , " I was told by Alexan- dra Yakovenko , who lived next door as a girl . " Every evening [ Misha and I went together to fetch the cows from the pasture for the families - this was our childhood . ” In 1929 ...
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... lived on a miserly pension of twenty - nine rubles a month . And his relatives lived as they always had in Privolnoye , farming , although now acclimated to work- ing on the local collective farm . Only a cousin , Ivan Vasilyevich ...
... lived on a miserly pension of twenty - nine rubles a month . And his relatives lived as they always had in Privolnoye , farming , although now acclimated to work- ing on the local collective farm . Only a cousin , Ivan Vasilyevich ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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