Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power

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Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power is written by John Miller and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1349224596 (ISBN 10) and 9781349224593 (ISBN 13).

One of the first studies of the full career of M S Gorbachev as Soviet leader, this book traces his seven-year struggle to reform the Soviet system and his failure to preserve it. Mr Miller analyses characteristics of Gorbachev that puzzled the West - his reformist gradualism, his relationship to the Communist party, his attitudes to communism, revolution, democracy and nationalism - and explores their role in the collapse of Soviet power.