Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet Innovator (Great Lives) - Softcover

Otfinoski, Steven

 
9780449904008: Mikhail Gorbachev: The Soviet Innovator (Great Lives)

Synopsis

Describes the life and rise to power of the Soviet leader who has brought about the present openness of the Soviet Union to the West

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one man responsible for the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet system, that man is Mikhail Gorbachev. Yet in one of history's ironies, Gorbachev wanted only to reform the USSR, not destroy it. And by the time he tried to rein in the changes he had begun, he found himself no longer in control of his country or his fate.

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