Andrei S. Grachev

Final Days (eBook, ePUB)

The Inside Story Of The Collapse Of The Soviet Union

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As press secretary to Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Grachev witnessed and recorded many events unobserved by the general public. In this engaging and compelling book, he recounts these episodes in vivid detail, interpreting them in the context of the time. Highlighted are top-level meetings with Western leaders; State Council debates on a new treaty of

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429720475
• Artikelnr.: 55724797

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Mending the Breach
Reinforcements from the Second Front
On a Crumbling Verge
A President Without a Country
One Last Mission for the Union
On the Eve of the Seventy
Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution
The Mirage of a Confederal State
"A Free Man with Nothing to Fear"
"A Cloud in Trousers"
Fight to the Finish
Final Hours
Checking the Pulse
Last Rites
Burying a Time Capsule
Departure
Afterword: A Mythical Kingdom Vanishes
Again
Appendix: Resignation Speech of Mikhail Gorbachev