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Six Years with Gorbachev Anatoly C. Chernyaev
September | 2000 | 6 x 9 inches
Political Science, History - European
Hardback: $36.95 TR
ISBN-10: 0-271-02029-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02029-7
Drawing
on his own diary as well as secret documents and transcripts of high-level
meetings, Anatoly Chernyaev recounts the drama that swept the Soviet
Union between 1985 and 1991. As Gorbachev's chief foreign policy aide
for most of that period, he played a central role in efforts to halt
the arms race, discard a confrontational ideology, and open his country
to the world. And as Gorbachev's confidant on many domestic issues
as well, Chernyaev offers rare insights into the struggle over glasnost,
the growth of separatism, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. While admiring
of perestroika's founder, Chernyaev is frank in faulting Gorbachev
for his hesitancy in economic reforms, for his delay in decentralizing
Union-republic ties, and above all for his misplaced faith in the
reformability of the Communist Party. Altogether this book is essential
reading for those interested in the Cold War's end, the USSR's collapse,
and especially the role played by ideas, ambitions, and key personalities
in these momentous events.
Anatoly
S. Chernyaev is Senior Fellow at the Gorbachev Foundation
in Moscow. Before becoming Gorbachev's senior foreign policy aide
in 1986, he served for twenty years in the International Department
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,
rising from Assistant to Deputy to Head.
