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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
Random House
Language
English
Description
The story of the 2nd Russian Revolution.
"Pulitzer Prize winner Hendrick Smith's new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening, unique inside portrait of Russia and the Russian people today. Fourteen years ago, Smith's best-selling book The Russians established him as America's premier popular authority on the contemporary Soviet Union. His second best-seller, The Power Game, showed millions of readers how Washington, D.C., really works....
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
Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Soviet history begins with bloodshed, oppression, and strife. Civil War stained the Russian landscape with the blood of its people after Nicholas II abdicated his throne to a provisional government. The Bolsheviks wanted Russia, and eventually they took her. Peasants became citizens with rights, but the truth is, the civil war only changed the name of their oppressor, from czar to Communist dictator. After decades of isolation and sometimes harsh...
Author
Publisher
Westview Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
"As press secretary to Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Grachev witnessed and recorded many events unobserved by the general public. In this engaging and compelling book, he recounts these episodes in vivid detail, interpreting them in the context of the time. Highlighted are top-level meetings with Western leaders; State Council debates on a new treaty of union (promising, until Gorbachev and Yeltsin sparred over Russia's policy toward the Chechen republic);...