Voices of Glasnost

An inside account of the events unfolding in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. In a series of interviews 14 leaders of Gorbachev''s reforms talk about their personal and political struggles to change the Soviet Union. They include the Politburo member often called Gorbachev''s right-hand man; three other members of the powerful Central Committee; leaders of the revolt against the old cultural bureaucracy including Russia''s most outspoken actor poet and film-maker; and equally prominent reformers in economics science journalism and foreign policy. Other works by Stephen F.Cohen include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution An End to Silence and Sovieticus.