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Gorbachev

William Taubman

20131 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2013
first published
  • 2013Simon & Schuster, Limited · ENGISBN 9780743295178
  • 2014Simon & Schuster, Limited · ENGISBN 9781416526421
  • 2017Simon & Schuster, Limited · ENGISBN 9781471128622
  • 2017W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. · 852 pages · ENGISBN 9780393647013
  • 2017Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 928 pages · ENGISBN 9780393245684
  • 2018Simon & Schuster, Limited · 880 pages · ENGISBN 9781471147951
  • 2018W. W. Norton & Company · 880 pagesISBN 9780393356205
  • 2017Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pagesISBN 9781664722279
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A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR.

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