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• catalog abstract ""Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow during the critical years of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the failed coup of August 1991, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. From the vantage point of the British Embassy (once the mansion of the great nineteenth-century merchant Pavel Kharitonenko) with its commanding views cross the Moscow River to Red Square and the Kremlin, Braithwaite had a ringside seat. With his long experience of Russia and the Russians, who saw him as 'Mrs. Thatcher's Ambassador', on good personal terms with Mikhail Gorbachev, he was in a privileged position close to the centre of Russia's changing relationship with the West." "But this is not primarily a memoir. It is an intimate analysis of momentous change and the people who drove it, against the background of Russia's long history and its unique but essentially European culture. Braithwaite watched as Gorbachev and his allies struggled to modernise and democratise a system which had already reached the point of terminal decay. Against the opposition of the generals, they forced the abandonment of the nuclear confrontation as the Soviet Union fell apart. The climax of the drama came in August 1991 when a miscellaneous collection of conservative patriots - generals, politicians and secret policemen - attempted to reverse the course of history and succeeded only in accelerating the collapse of the Soviet Union."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12553504.
• catalog coverage "Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-".
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""But this is not primarily a memoir. It is an intimate analysis of momentous change and the people who drove it, against the background of Russia's long history and its unique but essentially European culture. Braithwaite watched as Gorbachev and his allies struggled to modernise and democratise a system which had already reached the point of terminal decay. Against the opposition of the generals, they forced the abandonment of the nuclear confrontation as the Soviet Union fell apart. The climax of the drama came in August 1991 when a miscellaneous collection of conservative patriots - generals, politicians and secret policemen - attempted to reverse the course of history and succeeded only in accelerating the collapse of the Soviet Union."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow during the critical years of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the failed coup of August 1991, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. From the vantage point of the British Embassy (once the mansion of the great nineteenth-century merchant Pavel Kharitonenko) with its commanding views cross the Moscow River to Red Square and the Kremlin, Braithwaite had a ringside seat. With his long experience of Russia and the Russians, who saw him as 'Mrs. Thatcher's Ambassador', on good personal terms with Mikhail Gorbachev, he was in a privileged position close to the centre of Russia's changing relationship with the West."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-355) and index.".
• catalog description "The View across the River -- The Russians are Coming -- The Flight of the Bumble Bee -- Democracy Comes to the Soviet Union -- The Ashes of Victory -- Fraying at the Edges -- The Lurch to the Right -- Diary of a Coup -- The Rubble of the Dictatorship -- Arguing about the Economy -- Towards a Radiant Future?".
• catalog extent "xi, 371 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0300094965 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-".
• catalog spatial "Russia (Federation)".
• catalog subject "947.086 21".
• catalog subject "DK510.763 .B73 2002".
• catalog subject "Post-communism Russia (Federation)".
• catalog tableOfContents "The View across the River -- The Russians are Coming -- The Flight of the Bumble Bee -- Democracy Comes to the Soviet Union -- The Ashes of Victory -- Fraying at the Edges -- The Lurch to the Right -- Diary of a Coup -- The Rubble of the Dictatorship -- Arguing about the Economy -- Towards a Radiant Future?".
• catalog title "Across the Moscow river : the world turned upside down / Rodric Braithwaite.".
• catalog type "text".