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DESCRIPTION:Before Gorbachev became Soviet leader in \,1985\, the Soviet Un
 ion was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989 he had transformed the
  Soviet system. By 1990 he\, more than anyone else\, had ended the cold wa
 r. But at the end of 1991\, the USSR collapsed leaving him a president wit
 hout a country. How did a peasant boy whose high-flown tribute to Stalin w
 on a high school prize become the Soviet Union’s gravedigger? Why did the 
 Soviet regime choose him to be its leader? Why did he try to democratize h
 is country and why did he fail? How did he and arch-conservative American 
 President Ronald Reagan turn out to be perfect partners in ending the cold
  war? Why did Gorbachev release Moscow’s East European empire without firi
 ng a shot to preserve it? Besides addressing these questions\, Prof. Taubm
 an will suggest lessons of Gorbachev’s rise and fall for the Putin era.\n
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SUMMARY:William Taubman (Amherst College): “The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Go
 rbachev--And Some Lessons for the Putin Era'
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 herst-college-rise-and-fall-mikhail-gorbachev-and-some-lessons-putin-era-2
 93610
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