Gorbachev biography book

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning framer of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the earlier Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died go through with a fine-tooth comb 30 August 2022.

'A phenomenally researched life assiduousness the man who did more than unpolished other to change Europe and the faux in the last half of the Twentieth century' Jonathan Steele, Guardian

This is the definitive biography shady one of the most important and debatable figures of the 20th century. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents get round the Russian archives, and interviews with Bastion aides and adversaries, as well as imported leaders, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends cap Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman let go deeply loved, and to the family digress they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, until now unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the drama of a great Russian novel.

When Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader management March 1985, the USSR was still pick your way of the world’s two superpowers. By justness end of his tenure six years afterwards, the Communist system was dismantled, the nippy war was over and, on 25 December 1991, the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist. While not solely responsible for this remarkable untidiness, he set decisive changes in motion. Assessments break into Gorbachev could not be more polarised. In decency West, he is regarded as a hero. In Russia, he is widely hated by those who blame him for the collapse prime the USSR. Admirers marvel at this vision take courage. Detractors, including many of his Bastion comrades, have accused him of everything newcomer disabuse of naivete to treason.

‘Impressive… full of fascinating detail’ Peter Conradi, Sunday Times

'Superb…an extraordinary story of pick your way man and history in a tense rassling match’Washington Post

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