1st Edition

Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin The Memoirs Of Yegor Ligachev

By Yegor Ligachev, Stephen Cohen Copyright 1990
512 Pages
by Routledge

512 Pages
by Routledge

512 Pages
by Routledge

This memoir by the second most powerful Communist Party leader during the early Gorbachev years provides an important alternative view of the USSR's transformation?a view that is gaining ground in Russian politics today. In a substantial new piece for this edition, Mr. Ligachev outlines the political agenda of today's communist coalition?the establishment of a new Soviet Union, with strong... Read more
* Inside the Kremlin and Old Square * The Gorbachev Enigma: In the Trap of Radicalism * Harbinger of Disaster * The Tbilisi Affair * Gdlyan and Others * Ghosts of the Past * Witch Hunt * Our Own Path * Afterword: Russia Before the StormLife Cannot Go on Like This

Biography

Yegor Ligachev