Description
Zhores Medvedev's biography has now been revised and updated to include coverage of the Washington and Moscow Summits and to provide the latest insights on the progress of `glasnost' and `perestroika'.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-16581-1 (9780631165811)
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Content
Part One The Making of a General Secretary ; 1. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary! 2. Childhood and youth 3. The young Gorbachev in Stavropol 4. Kraikom secretary 5. In charge of agriculture at the Politburo 6. Andropov's ally 7. Second-in-command ; Part Two Gorbachev in Power ; 8. Changing the Kremlin guard 9. Getting the country moving 10. Domestic policy 11. New diplomacy, but the same old foreign policy 12. Chernobyl and Reykjavik 13 Domestic problems and foreign triumphs ; Conclusion ; Index