Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Brossura

Dobbs, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0679751513 ISBN 13: 9780679751519

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

Riassunto

A Washington Post correspondent provides a firsthand account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, describing such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, and the role of Boris Yeltsin in the 1991 coup attempt. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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L'autore:

Now a US citizen, Michael Dobbs was born and educated in Britain, with fellowships at Princeton and Harvard. He spent much of his career as a reporter for The Washington Post, where he covered the collapse of communism. His previous books include One Minute to Midnight, Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman—from World War to Cold War, and Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, a finalist for the 1997 PEN award for nonfiction.

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the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

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, Václav 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 seemi

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679751513
• ISBN 13: 9780679751519
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 528