#william taubman

[deadpresidents]

Do you have any recommendations for a book on Gorbachev? I just finished 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink and it reminded me how little I've really dug into his life/story, at least when compared to other major Soviet leaders. Thanks for the work you do, your books recs list is a regular resource for me.

William Taubman released a great biography of Gorbachev last year that I would definitely recommend: Gorbachev: His Life and Times (BOOK | KINDLE).

[nprbooks]

In Gorbachev: His Life and Times, biographer William Taubman makes a convincing case that the former Soviet leader's decency — the word appears throughout the book — is key to understanding him. NPR editor Mark Katkov says, “though Taubman is an accomplished scholar, his book is anything but a solemn academic tome. It's gripping.”

'Gorbachev' Is A Gripping, Sympathetic And Detailed Portrait

[universitybookstore]

When Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, his country was locked in a ideological Cold War with the United States that many foresaw would only end in Nuclear War. Five years later, after introducing the policies of Glasnot and Perestroika, the Cold War ended, peacefully. Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Taubman recounts this remarkable man's life in Gorbachev: His Life and Times, from W.W. Norton & Co.

[famousborntoday]

William Taubman : Born November 13, 1941

William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004 and the National Book...

Link: William Taubman

[guillermoloren]

"Gorbachov. Vida y época", de William Taubman

“Gorbachov. Vida y época”, de William Taubman

«La biografía definitiva del líder que transformó el mundo, narrada por el Premio Pulitzer, William Taubman.» .

Cubierta de: ‘Gorbachov’

Cuando Mijaíl Gorbachov se convirtió en el líder de la Unión Soviética en 1985 la URSS era sin duda una de las dos superpotencias mundiales de aquel entonces. Cuatro años más tarde, la perestroika y la glásnost, máximos exponentes de sus políticas liberales,…

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[rughydrangea]

[Khrushchev mounted an assault against Molotov at the July 1955 plenum.] His opening remarks were relatively restrained. But when Molotov accused him of "saying anything that happens to come into his head," Khrushchev blurted out something that wasn't officially admitted by Moscow until thirty-five years later. As an example of how Molotov's foreign policy mobilized the world against the USSR, Khrushchev pointed to Korea. "We began the Korean War. Everyone knows we did," he exclaimed. "Everyone but our own people," Mikoyan reminded him in a passage that was removed from even the secret printed transcript of the plenum.

William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era