My Six Years with Gorbachev - Hardcover

Chernyaev, Anatoly C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0271020296 ISBN 13: 9780271020297

Verlag: Penn State University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Drawing on his own diary as well as secret documents and transcripts of high-level meetings, Anatoly Chernyaev recounts the drama that swept the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1991. As Gorbachev’s chief foreign policy aide for most of that period, he played a central role in efforts to halt the arms race, discard a confrontational ideology, and open his country to the world. And as Gorbachev’s confidant on many domestic issues as well, Chernyaev offers rare insights into the struggle over glasnost, the growth of separatism, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. While admiring of perestroika’s founder, Chernyaev is frank in faulting Gorbachev for his hesitancy in economic reforms, for his delay in decentralizing Union-republic ties, and above all for his misplaced faith in the reformability of the Communist Party. Altogether this book is essential reading for those interested in the Cold War’s end, the USSR’s collapse, and especially the role played by ideas, ambitions, and key personalities in these momentous events.

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Anatoly S. Chernyaev is Senior Fellow at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. Before becoming Gorbachev's senior foreign policy aide in 1986, he served for twenty years in the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, rising from Assistant to Deputy to Head.

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• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0271020296
• ISBN 13: 9780271020297
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 437
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