Down with Big Brother

The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Michael Dobbs

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Vintage Books USA
02 January 1998

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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, Václav 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"

By: Michael Dobbs
Imprint: Vintage Books USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 427g
ISBN: 9780679751519
ISBN 10: 0679751513
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 02 January 1998
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active