Gorbachev Book Biography

His life and time is not on sale in our publishing house, it seems, the most complete biography of the last Soviet leader - the Pulitzer laureate William Taubman carefully analyzes the life events and actions of Mikhail Gorbachev in the book "Gorbachev. His life and time". William Taubman in his book “Gorbachev.

His Life and Time”, written for Western readers, immediately warns: compatriots are treated with Mikhail Gorbachev, if not with prosecution. Many cannot forgive him for the collapse of the Soviet Union, someone assures that he was sold to Western leaders, and some directly declare his softness, impossible for a manager of this scale. Unlike the West, where the Nobel Prize Laureate Gorbachev received a Nobel in the year is considered one of the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century, who ceased the existence of the "Empire of Evil".

According to himself, "Gorbachev is hard to understand." Probably, this can be called the main goal of the study by William Taubman - the book "Gorbachev. His life and time ”is an attempt to comprehend the personal qualities of Mikhail Sergeyevich, the events that influenced him and the era in which he realized his ideas. Taubman enters from afar, going with readers to the village of the Privolnoye of the Stavropol Territory, where the ancestors of Gorbachev settled for a long time.

The author talks about the future Soviet leader, relations between parents, relations, relations, relations between parents The education of little Misha. If the chairman of the collective farm had not stolen and not driven, no one would have worked at all. "Many critics reproach Gorbachev for excessive dreaminess and knitting in the clouds, but Taubman emphasizes: Mikhail Sergeyevich had a completely real, even critical view of Soviet reality.

And he reminds: with this look, Gorbachev remained a real communist. And then there was a rapid career rise: Gorbachev was transferred to work in Moscow. William Taubman in his book “Gorbachev. His life and time ”pays great attention to the personal life of the protagonist. The author writes a lot about Raisa Maksimovna, rightly believing that his wife had a tremendous influence on Gorbachev.

Acquaintance in the walls of the Alma-Mater Raisa Maksimovna studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, a cheerful student wedding, trips with her parents, the birth of a child, which undermined the health of Raisa Maksimovna, the life in Stavropol, the Moscow years, the last days of Gorbacheva in the clinic in Germany in the year of Raisa Maximovna diagnosed acute leukemia.

His life and time "reveals the multifaceted personality of Gorbachev to the reader: a decisive optimist, with a strong mind and a firm life position, which reduced the threat of a nuclear war that liberated the country of Eastern Europe from Soviet dominance and put the end of the Cold War. However, the Pulitzer laureate Wiley Taubman, Gorbachev did not manage to cope with the liberated The forces and the peoples who gave freedom to them.

Translation by Tatyana Azarovich and Olga Tikhomirova. Other materials.