Authors:Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: gorbachev, conversations
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0231118643
ISBN-13: 9780231118644
Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that "thinking out loud" process. It is an absorbing record of two friends trying
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: gorbachev
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000-10-15
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0231115156
ISBN-13: 9780231115155
Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia´s past, present, and future place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, Gorbachev on the Cold War, and Gorbachev on key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin. The book begins with a look back at 1917. While noting that tsarist Russia was not as backward as it is often portrayed, Gorbachev argues that the
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: factor, gorbachev
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1997-10-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0192880527
ISBN-13: 9780192880529
General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and political reformer, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the force behind perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev was arguably the most important statesman of the twentieth century. Providing a balanced account of the complexities of politics in the U.S.S.R. during a period of remarkable change, The Gorbachev Factor tells the gripping story of Gorbachev’s rise and fall, a story full of intrigue, secret meetings, and power struggles. Archie Brown, one of the world’s leading authorities on Gorbachev and the first Western writer to predict
Author: Valeri Gorbachev
Publisher: Candlewick
Keywords: chick, missing
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0763636762
ISBN-13: 9780763636760
Little chicks will be reassured when the town turns out for a search in this amusing, gently suspenseful tale with a sweet, satisfying ending.One of Mother Hen’s little chicks is missing. Did they leave him in the house? Is he hiding in his bed? Under a bush? A frantic Mother Hen enlists the help of obliging neighbors, who search high and low but see no sign of the missing chick. Soon the firemen arrive, and a detective is on the case. But is the little chick really missing? Or did he just find a quiet place for a nap? With bright illustrations and comically expressive animal characters, Val
Author: Valeri Gorbachev
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Reader
Keywords: day, penguin, turtle
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0375843744
ISBN-13: 9780375843747
TURTLE IS SO excited by the book about penguins that his dad reads him at bedtime that he decides he wants to be a penguin. So the next morning, he creates a penguin costume, grabs his book, and heads for the schoolbus. His kindergarten classmates are thrilled. They all want to be penguins too! Turtle shows his book to his teacher, and all day long he and his classmates do as the penguins doâthey slide down the slide on their bellies during recess, form a waddling conga line at music time, and snack on goldfish crackers. Itâs a super-cool penguin day. Turtle thinks heâd like to
Author: George W. Breslauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: leaders, yeltsin, gorbachev
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2002-03-18
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521892449
ISBN-13: 9780521892445
Examining the strategies employed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to build leadership authority, George Breslauer focuses on the power of ideas, as leaders use them to mobilize support and to craft an image as effective problem solvers, indispensable consensus builders, and symbols of national unity. Throughout the book, Breslauer compares Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and Khrushchev and Brezhnev, analyzing the changes in policy, the strategies, and the political dilemmas that are common to all four administrations. He addresses such questions as: Could Yeltsin have pursued a more beneficial p
Author: Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Publisher: Harpercollins
Keywords: world, country, thinking, new, perestroika
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1987-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0060390859
ISBN-13: 9780060390853
It has been almost twenty years since this book was written and shortly after that, the Soviet Union fell apart. That political entity known as the Soviet Block suddenly was no more, going out more with a soft pop than anything approaching a bang. There are those who believe that the collapse of the Soviet Union was inevitable, they cite technological advancement and the superiority of the capitalist system as the root causes. All that is true, but as we saw when several of the hard-line communists tried to stage a coup, the collapse of the Soviet Union could have been very bloody. For
