1985-1991

An account of the life and times of this leader who is promoting reform in the Soviet Union.

Examines the breakdown of communism in the Soviet Union, using photographs and examples of what life was like before 1917 and how things have been since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Examination of the vital transactions George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev made and concealed from the world.

Documents the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslvakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and the transition of each to independent states, drawing on interviews and newly uncovered archival material to offer insight into 1989's rapid changes and the USSR's minimal resistance.

The story of the second Russian Revolution, examining Gorbachev's USSR through interviews with the new Russians --in their homes, at work, and in school.

A collection of newspaper editorials and cartoons on the subject of the Gorbachev government and the General Secretary's style of leadership known as glasnost.

The demise of one of the world's superpowers and of the totalitarian system founded by Lenin and enforced by Stalin, is a story of rivalry, treachery, and betrayals, driven to its conclusion by the bitter personal relationship between two major figures of the twentieth century---Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

The ending of the Cold War in the waning years of the twentieth century continues to be one of the most unexpected and perplexing events of our time. Explanations provided by the winners and the losers in the Cold War differ considerably and often contradict each other. The author attempts to offer an answer to the question: why did it happen? by showing that the radical transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev years was part of a plan for internal democratic reform and an opening of Soviet society to the outside world.

Places Perestroika in its long-term historical perspective, as the final stage in a broad theory of revolutionary process beginning with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and puts forward a new interpretation of the striking events that led to the downfall of Gorbachev and Communism in the late Soviet Union.