Alexander Yakovlev : the man whose ideas delivered Russia from communism /
"A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of peretroika (reconstruction) and glasnost' (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe form Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until n...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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DeKalb, Illinois :
Northern Illinois University Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Youth
- War
- Khrushchev's speech
- Columbia University
- Trouble
- Canada
- Back home
- The December 1985 Memorandum
- Relations with Gorbachev
- Glasnost'
- Need of a fundamental break
- Role in foreign policy
- The 1939 Secret Protocol
- Attitude toward the United States
- Advocating presidency
- Accusations of treason
- Bolshevik crimes
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- Private life
- The August 1991 Coup
- Yakovlev's final thoughts about Russia and Russians
- Death.