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Front Matter
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About this book
By turns radical, uncertain, ambitious and autocratic, Mikhail Gorbachev and his bid to reform the Soviet Union have shaped the contemporary world. This concise and lively book provides an introduction to the man and his times, setting them in the context of a decaying and ramshackle empire and an ideology long since betrayed by its professed followers. Drawing on the latest memoirs and scholarship, this book follows Gorbachev's increasingly desperate attempts to control the forces he unleashed and hold together a state whose days were over.
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MARK GALEOTTI is Lecturerer in International History at the University of Keele, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gorbachev and his Revolution
Authors: Mark Galeotti
Series Title: European History in Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25313-5
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 152
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave