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Bezig met laden... The Fall of the Soviet Empire (editie 1998)door Michael Dobbs (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkDown with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire door Michael Dobbs
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Another excellent book by Michael Dobbs. Difficult for me to keep track of all the principle players with their slavic names, although the main people were well known. I felt that each chapter ended with a cliff hanger, which didn't seem necessary. The chapters were very short also, perhaps because it's a complicated topic and this was Dobbs' way of keeping the text moving. Excellent use made of his own interviews at the time, classified Soviet documents not readily available in the West, biographies, and analysis by recognized authorities. ( ) The most interesting aspect of this book for me was to see the two sides of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. At the time, Gorbachev came across as the wise and caring intellectual, and Boris the corrupt drunk. To see Gorbachev shy away from Democracy himself, debate a return to more authoritarian rule, utterly destroy the economy, and lack of gratitude for the defenders of the White House was an eye opener. Then to see Yeltsin in his prime, brave, determined, the defender of democracy. Humans are complex, and each leader has his 'time'. That time may be a few years or a few minutes in an otherwise unimpressive existence. Many a good leader devolved into a destructive force after a period of time. The writing is 'light' which makes this an easy read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led to the unraveling of the Bolshevik Revolution. From Tito's funeral to the birth of Solidarity in the Gda'nsk shipyard, from the tragedy of Tiananmen Square to Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank in the center of Moscow, Dobbs saw it all.The fall of communism was one of the great human dramas of our century, as great a drama as the original Bolshevik revolution. Dobbs met almost all of the principal actors, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Andrei Sakharov. With a sweeping command of the subject and the passion and verve of an eyewitness, he paints an unforgettable portrait of the decade in which the familiar and seemingly petrified Cold War world--the world of Checkpoint Charlie and Dr. Strangelove--vanished foreve Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)947.084History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1917-1953 ; Communist periodLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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