GORBACHEV, Mikhail [Lech Walesa].
Memoirs.
"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today": First Edition Of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Memoirs, Signed By Him and Fellow Nobel Laureate Lech Walesa
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
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First edition of Gorbachev's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and additionally signed by Lech Walesa on the title page. Lech Wałęsa is a Polish labor leader and statesman who co-founded Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc, which became a driving force in the struggle against communist rule. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, he later served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995, playing a central role in the country’s transition to democracy. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice.
"A timely reminder of what made Gorbachev so revolutionary back in 1985, these memoirs offer a detailed but readable chronicle of his achievements at the top, with the domestic and foreign policy aspects of perestroika covered, chronologically, in separate sections that comprise two thirds of the book. Highly educated compared with his predecessors, Gorbachev is remarkably fair, even to political enemies like Yeltsin, and it often seems that being too nice was part of his undoing. Especially revealing are the real or perceived limits on his power, at the top, to carry out reforms at home despite his successes in foreign policy" (Library Journal).
Memoirs.
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