Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Paperback - 1998
by Michael Dobbs
In this absorbing eyewitness account, Michael Dobbs takes readers on a tour of the collapsing communist world, from Tito's funeral to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square, from the breaching of the Berlin Wall to the sight of Boris Yeltsin riding a tank through the streets of Moscow.
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"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led to the unraveling of the Bolshevik Revolution. From Tito's funeral to the birth of Solidarity in the Gda� nsk shipyard, from the tragedy of Tiananmen Square to Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank in the center of Moscow, Dobbs saw it all.
The fall of communism was one of the great human dramas of our century, as great a drama as the original Bolshevik revolution. Dobbs met almost all of the principal actors, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Andrei Sakharov. With a sweeping command of the subject and the passion and verve of an eyewitness, he paints an unforgettable portrait of the decade in which the familiar and seemingly petrified Cold War world--the world of Checkpoint Charlie and Dr. Strangelove--vanished forever.
"Down with Big Brother ranks very high among the plethora of books about the fall of the Soviet Union and the death throes of Communism. It is possibly the most vividly written of the lot."
-- Adam B. Ulam, Washington Post Book World
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- Title Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
- Author Michael Dobbs
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date January 12, 1998
- ISBN 9780679751519 / 0679751513
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.18 x 0.92 in (20.45 x 13.16 x 2.34 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Dewey Decimal Code 947.084
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- New York Times, 01/18/1998, Page 24
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