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Gorbachev: His Life and Times - Softcover

Taubman, William

 
9781471157585: Gorbachev: His Life and Times
Softcover
ISBN 10: 147115758X ISBN 13: 9781471157585
Verlag: Simon + Schuster UK, 2017

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2018

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era

'A phenomenally researched life of the man who did more than any other to change Europe and the world in the last half of the 20th century'. Jonathan Steele, The Guardian

'An engaging, poignant portrayal of one of the most significant of Russian leaders' Kirkus review

' ... deeply penetrating history and engrossing psychological study.' Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs Magazine

‘Impressive… full of fascinating detail’ Peter Conradi, Sunday Times
 
‘Comprehensive and immensely readable’ The Economist

‘Superb…an extraordinary story of one man and history in a tense wrestling match’ The Washington Post

This is the definitive biography on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, as well as foreign leaders, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.

When Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader in March 1985, the USSR was still one of the world’s two superpowers. By the end of his tenure six years later, the Communist system was dismantled, the cold war was over and, on 25th December 1991, the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist. While not solely responsible for this remarkable upheaval, he set decisive changes in motion. Assessments of Gorbachev could not be more polarised. In the West, he is regarded as a hero. In Russia, he is widely hated by those who blame him for the collapse of the USSR. Admirers marvel at this vision and courage. Detractors, including many of his Kremlin comrades, have accused him of everything from naivete to treason.

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William Taubman is Bertrand Snell Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Amherst College.  His 2003 book, Khrushchev: The  Man and his Era, won both the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography in 2004.  Taubman has been the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and chairs the Advisory Committee of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington.

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An exemplary biography as well as a compelling history of the Soviet Union and Russia, Taubman's sweeping account has the amplitude of a Tolstoy novel. As memories of the Cold War fade, and worries about a new era of tense relations between
Russia and the West emerge, the moment is ripe to revisit the decades when the United States and the Soviet Union-the world's two “super powers”-dictated geopolitical strategy, foreign policy, and economic stability.

GORBACHEV shows how a dirt-poor farm boy of the Stalinist era and later a Communist Party stalwart became the USSR's most significant reformer; how the leader of the “evil Empire” forged a peaceful partnership with the United States aimed at the idealistic goal of eliminating nuclear arms; and, finally, how Gorbachev's reformist policies of perestroika and glasnost collapsed. Along the way, Taubman also affords revealing cameos of world leaders from Ronald Reagan to Margaret Thatcher to West German chancellor Helmut Kohl, who once compared Gorbachev to Goebbels.

'He had liberal Russian allies who welcomed his far-reaching reforms and worked to support them, but then chose Boris Yeltsin to lead them to the promised land. He had hard-line Soviet adversaries who resisted him, covertly at first, then openly and all-out. He had personal rivals,
especially Yeltsin, whom he tormented and who tormented him in turn, before ultimately administering the coup de grâce to both Gorbachev and the USSR. Western leaders doubted Gorbachev, then embraced him, and finally abandoned him, refusing him the economic assistance he
desperately needed. And, perhaps most important, he had to deal with Russia herself, with her traditional authoritarian and anti-Western ways: after rejecting both Gorbachev and Yeltsin, she finally embraced Vladimir Putin.'

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Verlag
Simon + Schuster UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
147115758X
ISBN 13 
9781471157585
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Anzahl der Seiten
880
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