Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs - Couverture souple

Gorbachev, Mikhail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0553506366 ISBN 13 : 9780553506365

Editeur : Bantam, 1997

Synopsis

The memoirs of Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the greatest world leaders of the twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born in the North Caucasus in 1931. He worked as a machine operator on a collective farm before studying law at Moscow University and joining the Communist Party in 1952. He became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985, President of the USSR in 1990, and resigned, following the August coup, in December 1991. He is now President of the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (the Gorbachev Foundation). He lives in Moscow.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the demolition of the Berlin Wall; his reforms that set in train events leading to the fall of Communism.

Twelve years ago, when Gorbachev came to power, the globe was still divided into two armed camps, one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. Gorbachev seemed a model Communist, ideologically committed to socialism, raised wholly within the confines of the Party. Yet he realized that the system could not continue. What was it about this man which enabled him to see so much more clearly than his colleagues?

Like most who start a revolution, Gorbachev has been left behind. No longer in power, he has been forced to endure criticism from those wise after the event - most notably Boris Yeltsin, who became undisputed leader after the failed military coup that finally displaced Gorbachev from office. In these memoirs Gorbachev reveals his feelings about the sad state of his country today. He tells us of his childhood in the North Caucasus during the Second World War, of coming to Moscow as a student and meeting Raisa Maksimovna, of his glittering career as a Party functionary - and his eventual role as one of the most powerful men in the world. This is a historical document of the first importance. It is also a fascinating human story, an insider's account of the events that we never dared believe could happen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0553506366
• ISBN 13: 9780553506365
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1040
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible