What happened to Gorbachev
John Lloyd, 7 March 1991
Gorbachev: The Making of the Man who Shook the World
by Gail Sheehy.
Heinemann, 468 pp., £16.99, December 1990,0 434 69518 1 Show More
by Gail Sheehy.
Heinemann, 468 pp., £16.99, December 1990,
Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin
by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson.
Macdonald, 430 pp., £14.95, December 1990,0 356 19760 3 Show More
by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson.
Macdonald, 430 pp., £14.95, December 1990,
The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union
edited by Graham Smith.
Longman, 389 pp., £22.50, January 1991,0 582 03953 3 Show More
edited by Graham Smith.
Longman, 389 pp., £22.50, January 1991,
“... he was useful in the past. He is history, in both the complimentary and the pejorative senses. Gail Sheehy’s portrait, an enlarged version of essays written for Vanity Fair, reminds us of the earlier period. Completed as his descent began, it was written to serve a public clamouring for ever more information about ‘Gorby’. A diligent ... ”