Mikhail Gorbachev Memoirs

In these memoirs Gorbachev reveals his feelings about the sad state of his country today. He tells us of his childhood in the North Caucasus during World War II, of coming to Moscow as a student and meeting Raisa Maksimovna, of his glittering career as a Party functionary - and his eventual role as one of the most powerful men in the world.;Twelve years ago, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, the globe was still divided into two armed camps, one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. Gorbachev seemed a model Communist, ideologically committed to socialism, raised wholly within the confines of the Party. Yet he realized that the system could not continue. What was it about this man which enabled him to see so much more clearly than his colleagues?;Like most who start a revolution, Gorbachev has been left behind. No longer in power, he has been forced to endure criticism from those wise after the event - most notably Boris Yeltsin, who became undisputed leader after the failed military coup that finally displaced Gorbachev from office.;This book is both a historical document and a human story of a man with a genuine love for his country and the people in it.

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