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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR.
"When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism....
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Ace Assassin Donald Moran has been hired by high-level Russian officers to kill Mikhail Gorbachev and destabilize the Soviet Union. But, when the job is called off at the eleventh hour, it is already too late to stop Moran-a psychopath, he has spent the last twenty hours refining his perfect plan...and it will take much more than canceled orders to prevent him from putting it into deadly motion.
Now the only thing standing between Gorbachev and a...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
“The implosion of the Soviet Union” was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking "bulldozer," wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried...
Publisher
[Passion River]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Werner Herzog and Andre Singer's riveting documentary, filled with unforgettable archive materials and based on three never before seen interviews, provides incredible access to, arguably, the world's greatest living politician. Now 88 and battling illness, the visionary Gorbachev, the former General Secretary of the U.S.S.R, is still gently but resolutely pushing towards his goals.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on interviews with Reagan administration officials, journalists, historians, and eyewitnesses, the author focuses on Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate and his historic challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Reagan and Gorbachev sat down in Reykjavik in 1986, George Shultz said that it was "the poker game with the highest stakes ever played." It was the last time the world had a chance to do away entirely with nuclear weapons. This is the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable summit conference. An Impossible Dream is the first exploration of recently-available archives of both sides-top-secret archives of the Kremlin, the personal papers of...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
With conflicts again dividing Russia and the United States, the need for balanced, accessible scholarship that benefits from new materials and critical perspectives is imperative. In seven lucid, groundbreaking essays, Stephen F. Cohen questions many conventional assumptions about the course of Soviet history, the fall of communism, and the effect of Russia's policies at home and abroad. Written for specialists and general readers, Cohen's essays...
16) The new Russians
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
The story of the 2nd Russian Revolution.
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