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Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs (Paperback)
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Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs (Paperback)
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List price R615
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You Save R107 (17%)
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Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was
Gorbachev's initiative 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 Gorbachev
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 international 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. He seemed a model Communist, ideologically committed to
socialism, raised wholly within the confines of the Party. Yet
Gorbachev realized that the system could not continue. What was it
about this man which enabled him to see so much more clearly 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 those wise after the event - most notably Boris
Yeltsin, who became undisputed leader after the failed military
coup that finally displaced Gorbachev from office. In these memoirs
Gorbachev reveals his feelings about the sad state of his country
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 powerful 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is a historical document of the first importance.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 we
never dared believe could happen.
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