The author of this volume was present during the final decade of the
Soviet empire, first for Reuters, then for the "Washington Post".
While Dobbs watched, playwrights and elctricians were transformed into
presidents, while Communist Party leaders became jailbirds or
newly-minted tycoons. He identifies the seeds of destruction, and
shows how Mikhail Gorbachev, in particular, was the unwitting
inspiration for the upheaval of the empire, while he thought he could
save the Communist Party by reforming it.;Dobbs' conclusion is that
though Big Brother may be dead, his dark legacy is still alive in the
turbulence in Russia, Romania, Bosnia and other countries that once
made up the most brutal empire of the 20th century.
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ISBN
9781408851029
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Paperbacks
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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