Gorbachev: On My Country and the World

Mikhail Gorbachev

Paper, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11515-5
$26.00 / £15.50

November, 1999
Cloth, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11514-8
$83.50 / £52.50

"Gorbachev's authorship alone makes this book an important text . . . . [His] take on history and his analysis of global issues are unique and provocative no matter where one stands in the political spectrum." — Booklist (starred review)

"We find passages of perceptive analysis that we should not ignore." — Foreign Affairs

"A wide-ranging and interesting book." — Archie Brown, Times Literary SupplementOxford University

About the Author

Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, and President of the Soviet Union, 1988-1991, currently heads the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow and lectures widely. He is also the author of Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations, The Search for a New Beginning: Developing a New Civilization, and The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons. George Shriver has translated and edited many books, including Nikolai Bukharin’s How It All Began: The Prison Novel and Roy Medvedev’s On Soviet Dissent, The October Revolution, Let History Judge, and Post-Soviet Russia (all published by Columbia).

top of page