William Taubman, the author of Gorbachev: His Life and Times, is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era. Mikhail Gorbachev was a decent man — too decent to be the ...
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Russian historian Andrei Zubov was 33 years old and attending a conference in Leningrad in 1985 when he heard that Mikhail Gorbachev, 54, had been elevated to the post of general secretary of the ...
This article originally appeared in the February 1990 issue of Esquire US. To read every Esquire US story ever published, upgrade to All Access. All across the country that year, party functionaries ...