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The Gorbachev Factor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (441 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191520808
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Gorbachev FactorDDC classification:
  • 947.085/4/092
LOC classification:
  • DK288.B76 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Making of a Reformist General Secretary -- 3 In the Portals of Power -- 4 The Power of Ideas and the Power of Appointment -- 5 Gorbachev and Economic Reform -- 6 Gorbachev and Political Transformation -- 7 Gorbachev and Foreign Policy -- 8 The National Question, the Coup, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union -- 9 Conclusions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: How decisive for the dramatic changes the world has seen in the last decade was the Gorbachev factor? What kind of man made possible such a massive transformation of his own country, Europe, and the world? Now in paperback, Archie Brown's groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work answers these questions in fascinating detail.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Making of a Reformist General Secretary -- 3 In the Portals of Power -- 4 The Power of Ideas and the Power of Appointment -- 5 Gorbachev and Economic Reform -- 6 Gorbachev and Political Transformation -- 7 Gorbachev and Foreign Policy -- 8 The National Question, the Coup, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union -- 9 Conclusions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

How decisive for the dramatic changes the world has seen in the last decade was the Gorbachev factor? What kind of man made possible such a massive transformation of his own country, Europe, and the world? Now in paperback, Archie Brown's groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work answers these questions in fascinating detail.

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