Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Item Information

		Copy / Holding Information
		Booklist Review
		Choice Review
		Library Journal Review
		Publisher Weekly Review
		Table of Contents
		More Content


	More by this author
		Taubman, William.

	Subjects
		Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022.
		Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
		Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
		Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991.
		Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-

	Browse Catalog
		by author:
		Taubman, William.

		by title:
		Gorbachev : his life...

		by call number:
		947.0854 G661t

	Search the Web
		Taubman, William.
		Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022.
		Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
		Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
		Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991.
		Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-


	MARC Display

Gorbachev : his life and times / William Taubman.

by Taubman, William.

View full image

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017.

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022.

Heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.

Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.

Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991.

Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-

9780393647013 (hc.)

xxv, 852 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "Gorbachev is hard to understand" -- Childhood, boyhood, and youth: 1931-1949 -- Moscow State University: 1950-1955 -- Climbing the ladder: 1955-1968 -- Regional party boss: 1969-1978 -- Return to Moscow: 1978-1985 -- What is to be done?: 1985-1986 -- Onto the world stage: March 1985-December 1986 -- Two scorpions in a bottle: 1987 -- Who's afraid of Nina Andreyeva?: 1988 -- Before the storm: 1987-1988 -- Summits galore: 1987-1988 -- 1989: triumph and trouble at home -- 1989: triumph and trouble abroad -- Coming apart?: 1990 -- Coming together?: 1990 -- To the coup: January-August 1991 -- The coup: August 1991 -- Final days: August-December 1991 -- Out of power: 1992-2016 -- Conclusion: Understanding Gorbachev.

"A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union. 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 perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism. In 1991, after barely escaping from a coup attempt, he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union he had tried to save. William Taubman shows how a peasant boy became the Soviet system's gravedigger, how he clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, how he found common ground with America's arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and how he permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Taubman portrays the many sides of Gorbachev's unique character that, by Gorbachev's own admission, make him 'difficult to understand.' Was he in fact a truly great leader, or was he brought low in the end by his own shortcomings, as well as by the unyielding forces he faced? 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. William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. His biography, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts"--Provided by publisher.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal