Author: Yakovlev, Alexander N. [ IAkovlev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) [1923-2005]
Title: A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
Description: New Haven [CT], Yale University Press, (2002). orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xvii,254 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev...was a Russian economist who was a Soviet governmental official in the 1980s and a member of the Politburo from 1987 to 1990. He was called the "godfather of glasnost"[1] as he is considered to be the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev reform program of glasnost and perestroika" - wikipedia

Keywords: Russian Political History, Communism, Communist Russia, Soviet Union, Violence, Politics, Purge Purges, ,