An inside account of the events unfolding in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. In a series of interviews, 14 leaders of Gorbachev's reforms talk about their personal and political struggles to change the Soviet Union. They include the Politburo member often called Gorbachev's right-hand man; three other members of the powerful Central Committee; leaders of the revolt against the old cultural bureaucracy, including Russia's most outspoken actor, poet and film-maker; and equally prominent reformers in economics, science, journalism and foreign policy. Other works by Stephen F.Cohen include "Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution", "An End to Silence" and "Sovieticus".
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Voices of Glasnost will be referred to for years to come as a guide to the zesty personalities of the latest Russian revolution. "
Voices of Glasnost will be referred to for years to come as a guide to the zesty personalities of the latest Russian revolution.
A sharp challenge to both those who think that nothing has changed in the Soviet Union and to those who think that everything has.
Much is said here that is admirable, thought-provoking, even poignant. . . . A complex portrait of a group of unusual people.
Stands above the heap of recent Gorbyiana. . . . Contains a spectacularly lucid introduction by Stephen Cohen. . . . The 14 interviews themselves are of permanent interest.
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This book of candid interviews with fourteen Soviet public figures offers readers a more direct kind of access to the historic reforms know as perestroika, or restructuring, that have been underway in that country since Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader in 1985.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0393026256
- ISBN 13 9780393026252
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages340
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