Volume 43, Number 20 · December 19, 1996
Gorbachev: Lingering Mysteries
By Jack F. Matlock
Memoirs
by Mikhail Gorbachev ( the copyright page states, "This edition based on the translation by Georges Peronansky and Tatjana Varsavsky," implying that the translation was edited substantially.)
Doubleday, 769 pp., $35.00
The Gorbachev Factor
by Archie Brown
Oxford University Press, 406 pp., $30.00
While Mikhail Gorbachev was in control of the Soviet state, three events transformed the world's political landscape: the cold war and the division of Europe ended; the Soviet Union and most of the countries allied with it ceased to be ruled by their Communist parties; and finally the Soviet state itself collapsed, fragmenting into fifteen sovereign successors.
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