58843X1 First Edition. Random House, New York: 1986. 339 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. The early 1980s was a time of great political turmoil for the Soviet Union. After nearly twenty years in power, Leonid Brezhnev was dead. In a quick progression that startled the world and shook the Soviet system to its core. two successive leaders, Andropov and Chernenko, died in office and a third, Mikhail Gorbachev, emerged to usher in a dramatic new era. Until now, most Americans have known little about how the Soviet leadership works. In Shadows and Whispers, a prizewinning journalist and longtime Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post takes us behind the closed doors of the Kremlin to examine the dynamics of power politics in a system with no formal mechanism for political change. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0394549988 $10.95USD
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