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Gorbachev

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Limited
Language: English
Published: 2013

Politics and government
Heads of state
Biography
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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.