Gorbachev: His Life and Times
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
The definitive biography of the transformational Russian leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev.
"Essential reading for the twenty-first [century]." -Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review
When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal polici...






















