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Down with Big Brother
Michael Dobbs
其他書名
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
出版A&C Black, 2013-10-17
主題Social Science / GeneralHistory / Europe / GeneralLiterary Collections / EssaysSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialPolitical Science / General
ISBN14088510249781408851029
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BXoxAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The author of this volume was present during the final decade of the Soviet empire, first for Reuters, then for the "Washington Post". While Dobbs watched, playwrights and elctricians were transformed into presidents, while Communist Party leaders became jailbirds or newly-minted tycoons. He identifies the seeds of destruction, and shows how Mikhail Gorbachev, in particular, was the unwitting inspiration for the upheaval of the empire, while he thought he could save the Communist Party by reforming it.;Dobbs' conclusion is that though Big Brother may be dead, his dark legacy is still alive in the turbulence in Russia, Romania, Bosnia and other countries that once made up the most brutal empire of the 20th century.