Item Details
ISBN: 9780393647013
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxiv, 852 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- Introduction: "Gorbachev is hard to understand"
- Childhood, boyhood, and youth: 1931-1949
- Moscow State University: 1950-1955
- Climbing the ladder: 1955-1969
- 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: 1991-2000
- Conclusion: understanding Gorbachev.
Control Number: 2274645
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017.