Alexander Yakovlev. A Stranger Among His Own. The Party Life of the "Architect of Perestroika"
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Alexander Yakovlev. A Stranger Among His Own. The Party Life of the "Architect of Perestroika"
49.99 €
The fate of Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev is a unique material for a fascinating narrative. A front-line soldier: he fought on the Volkhov front, was seriously wounded. Party official: passed all the steps of the career ladder - from an instructor of the provincial regional committee to a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. Scientist: postgraduate student of the AON under the CPSU Central Committee, intern at Columbia University (USA), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of a large academic institute. Diplomat: was the USSR Ambassador to Canada for ten years. "Architect of Perestroika" - this is how Yakovlev came to be called in the second half of the 1980s, when he, together with Mikhail Gorbachev, became actively involved in the process of reforming the party and the state. He was an active associate of the democratic government: in the 1990s, the Kremlin entrusted him with a number of responsible positions in the new Russia. And almost every life stage of this long biography raises questions, such as: was Yakovlev an "agent of influence," as many Russian politicians believed in the perestroika and 1990s? What was his real role in the tectonic processes that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the change of social order?
The author of this narrative, candidate of historical sciences Vladimir Snegirev, tried to answer these and other questions on the basis of archival documents, printed sources, interviews with A. N. Yakovlev's associates and his personal experience, to trace the hero's path from the beginning of his party career to the collapse of the CPSU.
The author of this narrative, candidate of historical sciences Vladimir Snegirev, tried to answer these and other questions on the basis of archival documents, printed sources, interviews with A. N. Yakovlev's associates and his personal experience, to trace the hero's path from the beginning of his party career to the collapse of the CPSU.
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