Used book
Gorbachev and his Revolution
β Scribed by Mark Galeotti (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 152
- Series
- European History in Perspective
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Decay of the Soviet Union....Pages 1-18
Yuri Andropov and the Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev....Pages 19-36
Electing Gorbachev....Pages 37-51
Gorbachev the Technocrat: Uskoreniye and the Attempt to Modernize....Pages 52-64
Gorbachev the Rerformer: Glasnostβ and Perestroika....Pages 65-83
Gorbachev the Gambler: Democratization....Pages 84-104
Gorbachev the Revolutionary: the End of the Soviet Union....Pages 105-124
Back Matter....Pages 125-142
β¦ Subjects
Russian, Soviet, and East European History; Literature, general; European History; Political Theory; Political Science; Modern History
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