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Gorbachev: His Life and Times Hardback - 2017 - 1st Edition

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This is a great book, very well written, with lots of insights and the inside information on Gorbachev's meetings with world leaders. Indispensible.

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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, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he, more than anyone else, had ended the Cold War, and in 1991, after barely escaping from a coup attempt, he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union he had tried to save. In the first comprehensive biography of the final Soviet leader, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy became the Soviet system's gravedigger, how he clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, how he found common ground with America's arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and how he permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Throughout, Taubman portrays the many sides of Gorbachev's unique character that, by Gorbachev's own admission, make him "difficult to understand." Was he in fact a truly great leader, or was he brought low in the end by his own shortcomings, as well as by the unyielding forces he faced?

Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, as well as foreign leaders, Taubman's intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev's remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.

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  • Title Gorbachev: His Life and Times
  • Author William Taubman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 880
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date 2017-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780393647013 / 0393647013
  • Weight 2.65 lbs (1.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.8 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 4.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Soviet Union - Politics and government -, Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017015009
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 07/01/2017, Page 12
  • Choice, 03/01/2018, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/2017, Page 85
  • Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview, 08/15/2017, Page 34
  • Library Journal, 06/15/2017, Page 93
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/01/2017, Page 61
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/31/2017, Page 0
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