Communism, U.S. Politics in the Post Cold-War Era, Russian & Soviet History, 1917-1991 (Soviet Union) - History, United States History - 20th Century - 1945 to 2000, Europe - Politics & Government, Europe - Political Biography, Asia - Political Biography
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Overview
In 1985 the Soviet Union was a recognised superpower and its political system, whilst looking clumsy to the outside world, also looked tenacious. Less than seven years later the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was banned, the notorious KGB broken up and the Soviet Union itself dissolved into fifteen independent states. Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power is one of the first books to explore the final years of the Soviet system and Gorbachev's attempts to save it from collapse through internal reforms. The book evaluates Gorbachev's career as Party leader and President (up to December 1991) and assesses the place of perestroika in Russian history. It also analyses features of Gorbachev that puzzled the West, in particular his relationships to communism, revolution, democracy and gradualism; to the Soviet middle classes and intelligentsia; to the Communist Party; and to the national diversity of the former Soviet empire.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1993
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pages
210
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312090807