The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown
How decisive for the dramatic changes the world has seen in the last decade was the Gorbachev factor? What kind of man made possible such a massive transformation of his own country, Europe, and the world? Now in paperback, Archie Brown's groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work answers these questions in fascinating detail.
richly researched, easily readable * Michael Foot, Evening Standard *
Archie Brown's The Gorbachev Factor is the most thorough and best researched monograph on Gorbachev I have read * Vitali Vitaliev, The Daily Telegraph *
To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to Archie Brown's astute and lucid bookThere have been several excellent works on Mr Gorbachev ... but none examines the subject as thoroughly as this volume ... a rich study, as impressive in its sweep as in its details. * New York Times *
the best-informed account in English of the evolution of Gorbachev's political views and strategies between 1985 and 1989. * TLS *
Archie Brown's The Gorbachev Factor is the most thorough and best researched monograph on Gorbachev I have read * Vitali Vitaliev, The Daily Telegraph *
To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to Archie Brown's astute and lucid bookThere have been several excellent works on Mr Gorbachev ... but none examines the subject as thoroughly as this volume ... a rich study, as impressive in its sweep as in its details. * New York Times *
the best-informed account in English of the evolution of Gorbachev's political views and strategies between 1985 and 1989. * TLS *
Archie Brown is Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and Sub-Warden of St Antony's College where he has been a Fellow since 1971. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991. Professor Brown is the author of numerous publications on Soviet and Russian politics. His more recent works (as editor and major contributor) include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (1994), New Thinking in Soviet Politics (1992), The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary (1990), and Political Leadership in the Soviet Union (1989).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192880529 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192880527 |
| Title | The Gorbachev Factor |
| Author | Archie Brown |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1997-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 440 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 1996 W. J. M. Mackenzie Prize awarded by the Political Studies Association. |
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