A significant political figure in twentieth-century Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Communist rule between 1989 and 1991.
Yet, until now, not a single full-scale biography has been devoted to him.
In his study of the unsung hero, Richard Pipes seeks to rectify this lacuna and give Yakovlev his historical due.
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Northern Illinois University Press Alexander yakovlev: the man whose ideas delivered russia from communism, paperback/richard pipes
