Alexander Yakovlev : : The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism /

Alexander Yakovlev : : The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism / / Richard Pipes.

A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until now, not a s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Pipes, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.) :; 12 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Youth
  • 2. War
  • 3. Khrushchev’s Speech
  • 4. Columbia University
  • 5. Trouble
  • 6. Canada
  • 7. Back Home
  • 8. The December 1985 Memorandum
  • 9. Relations with Gorbachev
  • 10. Glasnost’
  • 11. Need of a Fundamental Break
  • 12. Role in Foreign Policy
  • 13. The 1939 Secret Protocol
  • 14. Attitude toward the United States
  • 15. Advocating Presidency
  • 16. Accusations of Treason
  • 17. Bolshevik Crimes
  • 18. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  • 19. Private Life
  • 20. The August 1991 Coup
  • 21. Yakovlev’s Final Thoughts about Russia and Russians
  • 22. Death
  • Documents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations of Yakovlev’s Works
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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