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Economic history Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931-2022 Politics and government Soviet Union Soviet Union Economic conditions 1985-1991 Soviet Union History 1953-1985 Soviet Union History 1985-1991 Soviet Union Politics and government 1945-1991 Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991Filter By Subjects
Economic history Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931-2022 Politics and government Soviet Union Soviet Union Economic conditions 1985-1991 Soviet Union History 1953-1985 Soviet Union History 1985-1991 Soviet Union Politics and government 1945-1991 Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991Taubman, William
Summary: A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR. "When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GORBACHEV TAUZubok, V. M. (Vladislav Martinovich)
Summary: Was the break-up of the Soviet Union inevitable? Thirty years after its collapse, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR. He reveals how Gorbachev's misguided reforms deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances - and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.085 ZUBSummary: The Soviet leader was acclaimed as the architect of Glasnost and Perestrolka, policies that gave the citizens of the Soviet Union, what Ronald Reagan called 'the Evil Empire,' a chance to be free. He even tore down the Berlin Wall. But at the same time, under his rule, the Chernobyl nuclear facility exploded and its destruction was concealed. Citizens demanding independence in the Baltic states...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021