Memoirs
by Mikhail Gorbachev
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In these long-awaited memoirs, Mikhail Gorbachev looks back on a lifetime that mirrors the fate of the Russian people. From the persecution of his family under Stalin to his first political steps, to his extraordinary rise within the Communist Party, Gorbachev recounts the events that led to his own disillusionment, without which the eventual implosion of communism would not have taken place. He casts an equally sharp eye on the policies of both past communist governments and present-day show more reformers. show lessTags
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1985 to 1991. He was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1990.
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- Canonical title*
- Mémoires
- People/Characters
- Mikhail Gorbachev; Yuri Andropov; Raisa Gorbachev; Fyodor Kulakov; Leonid Brezhnev; Nikita Khrushchev (show all 20); Leonid Yefremovich; Alexei Kosygin; Konstantin Chernenko; Nikolai Tikhonov; Dmitri Ustinov; Eduard Shevardnadze; Yegor Ligachev; Boris Yeltsin; Nikolai Ryzhkov; Andrei Sakharov; Vadim Medvedev; Nicolae Ceauşescu; Helmut Kohl; Wojciech Jaruzelski
- Important places
- Moscow, USSR; Stavropol, USSR; Privolnoye, USSR
- Quotations
- Chernobyl shed light on many of the sicknesses of our system as a whole. Everything that had built up over the years converged in this drama: the concealing or hushing up of accidents and other bad news, irresponsibility and ... (show all)carelessness, slipshod work, wholesale drunkenness. This was one more convincing argument in favor of radical reforms.
Perestroika was begun in the name of establishing democratic principles in society and the Party, and these goals could not be achieved by undemocratic methods.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 947.085 — History & geography History of Europe Eastern European Counties and Russia Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1953-1991
- LCC
- DK290.3 .G67 .A3 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics History Soviet regime, 1918-1991
- BISAC
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- ISBNs
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- ASINs
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