Inside Gorbachev''s Kremlin - The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev

This memoir by the second most powerful Communist Party leader during the early Gorbachev years provides an important alternative view of the USSR's transformation--a view that is gaining ground in Russian politics today.

List of contents

* Inside the Kremlin and Old Square * The Gorbachev Enigma: In the Trap of Radicalism * Harbinger of Disaster * The Tbilisi Affair * Gdlyan and Others * Ghosts of the Past * Witch Hunt * Our Own Path * Afterword: Russia Before the StormLife Cannot Go on Like This

About the author

Yegor Ligachev

Summary

This memoir by the second most powerful Communist Party leader during the early Gorbachev years provides an important alternative view of the USSR's transformation--a view that is gaining ground in Russian politics today.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Cohen, Stephen F. Cohen, Yegor Ligachev, Yegor Cohen Ligachev
• Assisted by: Michele A. Berdy (Translation), Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman (Translation), Catherine A. Fitspatrick (Translation), Marian Schwartz (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367096045
• ISBN: 978-0-367-09604-5
• No. of pages: 512
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education