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Author Taubman, William, author.

Title Gorbachev : his life and times / William Taubman.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 GORBACHEV    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B GORBACHEV    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY GORBACHEV    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B GORBACHEV MIKHAIL T    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B GORBACHE    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B GORBACHEV, MIKAIL SERGEEVICH TAU    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL SERGEEVICH    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B GORBACHEV    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-GORBACHEV TAU    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxv, 852 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [699]-804) and index.
Contents Introduction: "Gorbachev is hard to understand" -- Childhood, boyhood, and youth: 1931-1949 -- Moscow State University: 1950-1955 -- Climbing the ladder: 1955-1969 -- Regional party boss: 1969-1978 -- Return to Moscow: 1978-1985 -- What is to be done? 1985-1986 -- Onto the world stage: March 1985-December 1986 -- Two scorpions in a bottle: 1987 -- Who's afraid of Nina Andreyeva? 1988 -- Before the storm: 1987-1988 -- Summits galore: 1987-1988 -- 1989: triumph and trouble at home -- 1989: triumph and trouble abroad -- Coming apart? 1990 -- Coming together? 1990 -- To the coup: January-August 1991 -- The coup: August 1991 -- Final days: August-December 1991 -- Out of power: 1991-2000 -- Conclusion: understanding Gorbachev.
Summary 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.
Subject Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022 (OCoLC)fst00147255
Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
Heads of state. (OCoLC)fst00952677
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Chronological Term 1985-1991
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9781471147968
9780393647013 (hardcover)
0393647013 (hardcover)
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