Final Days

The Inside Story Of The Collapse Of The Soviet Union

Andrei S. Grachev (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-15906-1 (ISBN)

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In this book, the author, press secretary to Mikhail Gorbachev, highlights top-level meetings with Western leaders; State Council debates on a new treaty of union; and Gorbachev's private talks with leading members of government, business, and religious and cultural circles around the world.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-367-15906-6 / 0367159066
ISBN-13	978-0-367-15906-1 / 9780367159061
Zustand	Neuware