Books written by William Taubman

  • Gorbachev: His Life and Times

    NOTES AUTHOR'S NOTE 1 See Archie Brown, Seven Years That Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective (Oxford: Oxford ... 15 See Aron Belkin, “Kto zhe takoi Gorbachev?,” Kul'tura, October 19, 1991; for a later, fuller version of ...

  • Gorbatsjov: Zijn leven en tijdperk

    Omdat Gorbatsjov de leiders van zijn bondgenoten meestal in hun eigen ideologische taal aansprak (wat meteen als tactisch voordeel had dat ... De enige communistische leider die hij persoonlijk sprak, was Natta van de Italiaanse partij.

  • Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

    367–71 ; Hersh , Dark Side of Camelot , p . 259 . 104 NK2 , p . 506 . 105 Pravda , August 8 , 1961 , p . 2 , and August 12 , 1961 , pp . 2–3 . Also see Bundy , Danger and Survival , p . 365 . 106 Shevchenko , Breaking with Moscow , p .

  • Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

    and urging that potatoes be fertilized with manure and that the manure in winter fields be stacked in “covered heaps.” Pravda, March 17, 1963, p. 1. 47 Pravda, April 26, 1963, pp. 1, 3, 5. 48 McMillan, Khrushchev and the Arts, pp. 5–6.

  • Moscow Spring

    Here is the remarkable story of how two Americans found themselves in the center of Gorbachev's Soviet revolution--a time as important, they believe, as John Reed's ten days that shook...