TIME OF CHANGE - Hardcover

Medvedev, Roy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394581512 ISBN 13: 9780394581514

Publisher: Pantheon, 1990

Gorbachev's "Perestroika" was the official vision of the USSR's future. Roy Medvedev provides an alternative picture of what is happening inside the Soviet Union. Medvedev examines the means employed by the Soviet regime to maintain its grip on power since the death of Stalin, and asks to what extent Gorbachev differs from his predecessors.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

From Library Journal:

This book consists of a series of "conversations" between eminent Soviet historian Medvedev and Chiesa, Moscow correspondent of the Italian Communist newspaper L'Unita. They offer an unparalleled chronicle of events from Gorbachev's accession in 1985 to early 1989. The study is one of personalities, of the struggle between conservatives (the stubborn Yegor Ligachev, the enigmatic Nina Andreyeva) and Gorbachev supporters (the loyal Alexander Yakolev, the erratic Boris Yeltsin). The authors' abundant sympathy for Gorbachev spares their subject serious criticism or interpretation, but their subtle blend of detail and context compensates for this shortcoming. Though the book may overwhelm newcomers to the study of Soviet politics, most readers will be well rewarded. Recommended for larger public and most academic libraries.
- Zachary T. Irwin, Pennsylvania State Univ., Erie
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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