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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... million people in the last seventy years - thirteen million during collectivization , eight million during the civil war , twenty - seven million during World War II , and tens of millions under Stalin's repressions - but the most ...
... million people in the last seventy years - thirteen million during collectivization , eight million during the civil war , twenty - seven million during World War II , and tens of millions under Stalin's repressions - but the most ...
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... million Chuvash are Turks and two million peoples of Dagestan are Muslims . While the Slavic population of Russians ( 145 million ) and Ukrainians ( 44 million , including others in the west with a heavy mixture of Polish and German ...
... million Chuvash are Turks and two million peoples of Dagestan are Muslims . While the Slavic population of Russians ( 145 million ) and Ukrainians ( 44 million , including others in the west with a heavy mixture of Polish and German ...
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... million coal miners : Felicity Barringer in the New York Times , 22 January 1990 . ... demanded an end : Esther B ... million of the 285 million Soviet population : Radio Liberty Report on the USSR , 19 January 1990 . Page 289 " but ...
... million coal miners : Felicity Barringer in the New York Times , 22 January 1990 . ... demanded an end : Esther B ... million of the 285 million Soviet population : Radio Liberty Report on the USSR , 19 January 1990 . Page 289 " but ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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