Table of Contents

Introduction
The Making of a Reformist General Secretary
In the Portals of Power
The Power of Ideas and the Power of Appointment
Gorbachev and Economic Reform
Gorbachev and Political Transformation
Gorbachev and Foreign Policy
The National Question, the Coup, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Conclusions

Promotional Information

Awarded the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize 1997 by the Political Studies Association of Great Britain and Winner of the Alec Nove Prize 1997 (BASEES)

About the Author

Archie Brown is Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and Sub-Warden of St Antony's College where he has been a Fellow since 1971. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991. Professor Brown is the author of numerous publications on Soviet and Russian politics. His more recent works (as editor and major contributor) include The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (1994), New Thinking in Soviet
Politics (1992), The Soviet Union: A Biographical Dictionary (1990), and Political Leadership in the Soviet Union (1989).

Reviews

richly researched, easily readable Michael Foot, Evening Standard Archie Brown's The Gorbachev Factor is the most thorough and best researched monograph on Gorbachev I have read Vitali Vitaliev, The Daily Telegraph To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to Archie Brown's astute and lucid book. There have been several excellent works on Mr Gorbachev ... but none examines the subject as thoroughly as this volume ... a rich study, as impressive in its sweep as in its details. New York Times the best-informed account in English of the evolution of Gorbachev's political views and strategies between 1985 and 1989. TLS

richly researched, easily readable Michael Foot, Evening Standard Archie Brown's The Gorbachev Factor is the most thorough and best researched monograph on Gorbachev I have read Vitali Vitaliev, The Daily Telegraph To understand this singular man, the reader can do no better than to turn to Archie Brown's astute and lucid book. There have been several excellent works on Mr Gorbachev ... but none examines the subject as thoroughly as this volume ... a rich study, as impressive in its sweep as in its details. New York Times the best-informed account in English of the evolution of Gorbachev's political views and strategies between 1985 and 1989. TLS