Mikha gorbachev (6 résultats)

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Paperback. Etat : Fair. 1040 pages. cover worn, text very tanned Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initi ative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era' s most symbolic events, the demolition on the Berlin Wall; his reforms that set in train events leading to the fall of Communism. Twelve years ago, when Gorbach ev came to power, the globe was still divided into two armed camps, one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. The Cold War dominated internation al politics, from Angola to Afghanistan. The man who became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 was much younger than his predecessors, yet there was little else to distinguish him from the stony-faced apparatchiks waving from the Kremlin. H e seemed a model Communist, ideologically committed to socialism, raised wholly within the confines of the Party. Yet Gorbachev realized that the system could n ot continue. What was it about this man which enabled him to see so much more cl early 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 tho se wise after the event - most notably Boris Yeltsin, who became undisputed lead er after the failed military coup that finally displaced Gorbachev from office. In these memoirs, Gorbachev reveals his feelings about the sad state of his coun try 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, eventually becoming one of the most p owerful 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 This is a historical document of the first importance.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 w.…