Moscow, December 25, 1991 the last day of the Soviet Union
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Moscow, December 25, 1991 : |b the last day of the Soviet Union / |c Conor O'Clery. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b PublicAffairs, |c c2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xxi, 316 p., [12] p. of plates : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking "bulldozer," wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt by hardline communists shook Gorbachev's authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin. Conor O'Clery has written a truly suspenseful thriller of the Cold War's final act: the internal power plays, the shifting alliances, the betrayals, the mysterious three colonels carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes, and the jockeying to exploit the future.--From publisher description. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 651 | 0 | |a Moscow (Russia) |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, |d 1931- |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich, |d 1931-2007. |
| 651 | 0 | |a Soviet Union |x History |y 1985-1991. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Soviet Union |x Politics and government |y 1985-1991. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Hays, Sara Light tribute. | |
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