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Named Person: | Michail S Gorbačëv |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Archie Brown |
ISBN: | 0198273444 9780198273448 0192880527 9780192880529 |
OCLC Number: | 177338692 |
Notes: | Digitalisat der Druck-Ausg. Oxford, 1997. |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 1996 W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize awarded by the Political Studies Association. |
Description: | Online-Ressource. |
Contents: | Introduction ; The Making of a Reformist General Secretary ; In the Portals of Power ; The Power of Ideas and the Power of Appointment ; Gorbachev and Economic Reform ; Gorbachev and Political Transformation ; Gorbachev and Foreign Policy ; The National Question, the Coup, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union ; Conclusions |
Series Title: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
Responsibility: | Archie Brown. |
Reviews
Publisher Synopsis
the best-informed account in English of the evolution of Gorbachev's political views and strategies between 1985 and 1989. * TLS * To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to Archie Brown's astute and lucid book. There have been several excellent works on Mr Gorbachev ... but none examines the subject as thoroughly as this volume ... a rich study, as impressive in its sweep as in its details. * New York Times * Archie Brown's The Gorbachev Factor is the most thorough and best researched monograph on Gorbachev I have read * Vitali Vitaliev, The Daily Telegraph * richly researched, easily readable * Michael Foot, Evening Standard * Read more...

