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 37
... peasantry and the new class of petty Party bureaucrats , whose sole function was to maintain control . Stalin's aim ... peasant , " the designa- tion for a farmer who owned his own land but couldn't afford to pay others to work for him ...
... peasantry and the new class of petty Party bureaucrats , whose sole function was to maintain control . Stalin's aim ... peasant , " the designa- tion for a farmer who owned his own land but couldn't afford to pay others to work for him ...
Page 55
... peasant moved from czarist serfdom to enforced collectivization with barely time to learn the difference . But Gorbachev is from a different strain than the average Soviet . He is in many ways an aberration . The Soviet people have ...
... peasant moved from czarist serfdom to enforced collectivization with barely time to learn the difference . But Gorbachev is from a different strain than the average Soviet . He is in many ways an aberration . The Soviet people have ...
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... peasant backgrounds . Yakovlev was born in December 1923 in a tiny village near Yaroslavl , an ancient town on the Volga River . " This peasant origin always leaves a trace , " Yakovlev told me . " I think that country people are more ...
... peasant backgrounds . Yakovlev was born in December 1923 in a tiny village near Yaroslavl , an ancient town on the Volga River . " This peasant origin always leaves a trace , " Yakovlev told me . " I think that country people are more ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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