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• catalog abstract "In Ten Years That Shook the World, Valery Boldin, a key Gorbachev aide, gives us a ringside seat to one of history's momentous developments - the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union - as well as a glimpse of the top-secret world behind the Iron Curtain. Here is a fascinating new perspective on the events, personalities, and forces involved in the ending of the cold war. Valery Boldin joined Gorbachev's staff in 1981 as an adviser on agricultural questions at a time when Gorbachev was still a lowly bureaucrat. But as Gorbachev's star rose, so did Boldin's. He soon became Gorbachev's right-hand man, first on the Central Committee and eventually as Chief of Staff. He witnessed at first hand the geritocracy that ruled the USSR during the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko, and was thus in an ideal position to observe the combination of baroque maneuvering and genuine vision that propelled Gorbachev to the top. Present at the creation of perestroika - indeed, he was responsible for drafting key speeches and memoranda - Boldin sat in on many of the most fateful meetings of the era, dealing with the secret murder of Polish officers at Katyn, the Chernobyl disaster, the Afghan war, the secession of the Baltic republics, and the eventual disintegration of the Soviet economy and state. This book tells the story of all those events, portraying each of the key figures of the period both as private persons and as public personalities. But above all, this is the saga of Gorbachev himself (and Raisa): supremely intelligent, courageous, and, in the early years at least, visionary - but also personally ambitious, vain, and at times mean-spirited and disloyal to colleagues and subordinates. Boldin remained a progressive communist loyalist to the end, and he finally broke with his master in the vain hope that the Union could be saved.".
• catalog alternative "10 years that shook the world".
• catalog contributor b5763767.
• catalog coverage "Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991.".
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "In Ten Years That Shook the World, Valery Boldin, a key Gorbachev aide, gives us a ringside seat to one of history's momentous developments - the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union - as well as a glimpse of the top-secret world behind the Iron Curtain. Here is a fascinating new perspective on the events, personalities, and forces involved in the ending of the cold war. Valery Boldin joined Gorbachev's staff in 1981 as an adviser on agricultural questions at a time when Gorbachev was still a lowly bureaucrat. But as Gorbachev's star rose, so did Boldin's. He soon became Gorbachev's right-hand man, first on the Central Committee and eventually as Chief of Staff. He witnessed at first hand the geritocracy that ruled the USSR during the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko, and was thus in an ideal position to observe the combination of baroque maneuvering and genuine vision that propelled Gorbachev to the top. Present at the creation of perestroika - indeed, he was responsible for drafting key speeches and memoranda - Boldin sat in on many of the most fateful meetings of the era, dealing with the secret murder of Polish officers at Katyn, the Chernobyl disaster, the Afghan war, the secession of the Baltic republics, and the eventual disintegration of the Soviet economy and state. This book tells the story of all those events, portraying each of the key figures of the period both as private persons and as public personalities. But above all, this is the saga of Gorbachev himself (and Raisa): supremely intelligent, courageous, and, in the early years at least, visionary - but also personally ambitious, vain, and at times mean-spirited and disloyal to colleagues and subordinates. Boldin remained a progressive communist loyalist to the end, and he finally broke with his master in the vain hope that the Union could be saved.".
• catalog description "Includes indexes.".
• catalog description "Introduction / Adam B. Ulam -- 1. Moving into Gorbachev's Orbit -- 2. The Making of a General Secretary -- 3. On the Road to Perestroika -- 4. Foreign visits -- 5. Glasnost: A Turn Toward Democratic Reforms -- 6. Behind the Scenes in the Communist Party -- 7. The Twilight of Perestroika -- 8. Dismantling the Union: "I Cannot Be a Party to the Disintegration of the Country" -- 9. The Disintegration of the Party -- Epilogue: Taking Stock: "What Have You Done to Our Country?"".
• catalog extent "viii, 310 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Ten years that shook the world.".
• catalog identifier "0465084079 (hc) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ten years that shook the world.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng rus".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
• catalog relation "Ten years that shook the world.".
• catalog spatial "Soviet Union Politics and government 1985-1991.".
• catalog subject "947.085/4 20".
• catalog subject "Boldin, V. I. (Valeriĭ Ivanovich), 1935-".
• catalog subject "DK288 .B65 1994".
• catalog subject "Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Adam B. Ulam -- 1. Moving into Gorbachev's Orbit -- 2. The Making of a General Secretary -- 3. On the Road to Perestroika -- 4. Foreign visits -- 5. Glasnost: A Turn Toward Democratic Reforms -- 6. Behind the Scenes in the Communist Party -- 7. The Twilight of Perestroika -- 8. Dismantling the Union: "I Cannot Be a Party to the Disintegration of the Country" -- 9. The Disintegration of the Party -- Epilogue: Taking Stock: "What Have You Done to Our Country?"".
• catalog title "10 years that shook the world".
• catalog title "Ten years that shook the world : the Gorbachev era as witnessed by his chief of staff / Valery Boldin ; translated by Evelyn Rossiter.".
• catalog type "text".