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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... rubles to the dollar . Golden Ruble standard was the one required of foreigners for all hotel and Intourist - arranged services . It required you to buy rubles at the same rate dollars buy the British pound . Lunch for four at the ...
... rubles to the dollar . Golden Ruble standard was the one required of foreigners for all hotel and Intourist - arranged services . It required you to buy rubles at the same rate dollars buy the British pound . Lunch for four at the ...
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... rubles from a foreigner . " Will you pay in dollars ? " was always the first question . For Soviets , there were fewer goods to buy in all of Moscow than New Yorkers can find between any five blocks along Broadway in midtown Manhattan ...
... rubles from a foreigner . " Will you pay in dollars ? " was always the first question . For Soviets , there were fewer goods to buy in all of Moscow than New Yorkers can find between any five blocks along Broadway in midtown Manhattan ...
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... rubles to forty - one billion rubles , ac- counting for 8 percent of the country's GNP . And the number of people caught up in the dynamic cooperative movement had swelled in the same two years from seventy thousand to four and a half ...
... rubles to forty - one billion rubles , ac- counting for 8 percent of the country's GNP . And the number of people caught up in the dynamic cooperative movement had swelled in the same two years from seventy thousand to four and a half ...
Contents
COUNTRY COSSACK | 27 |
FIRSTGENERATION | 57 |
Working for the Party Thought Police | 63 |
Copyright | |
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