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Title: Moscow, December 25,1991
Subtitle: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
Author: Conor O'Clery
Narrator: Don Hagen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-11
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 50 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking bulldozer, wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachevs authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin, and move in as ruler of Russia.
Conor OClery has written a unique and truly suspenseful thriller of the day the Soviet Union died. The internal power plays, the shifting alliances, the betrayals, the mysterious three colonels carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes, and the jockeying to exploit the future are worthy of John Le Carré or Alan Furst. The Cold Wars last act was a magnificent dark drama played out in the shadows of the Kremlin.
Critic Reviews:
Shrewd political history. OClery presents a colorful human-scale saga, full of pathos and pettiness. (As Gorbachev was preparing his farewell address, Yeltsin sent minions to evict his family from their dacha.) But he also illuminates larger historical forces: the revival of nationalist politics in the breakaway Soviet republics; the desperate food shortages as the command economy lost its authority; the social enervation that left no one willing to defend the Soviet system by force. The result is a revealing portrait of one of history's greatest upheavals. (Publishers Weekly, June 15, 2011)
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Title: Moscow, December 25,1991
Subtitle: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
Author: Conor O'Clery
Narrator: Don Hagen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-18-11
Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 50 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking bulldozer, wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachevs authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin, and move in as ruler of Russia.
Conor OClery has written a unique and truly suspenseful thriller of the day the Soviet Union died. The internal power plays, the shifting alliances, the betrayals, the mysterious three colonels carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes, and the jockeying to exploit the future are worthy of John Le Carré or Alan Furst. The Cold Wars last act was a magnificent dark drama played out in the shadows of the Kremlin.
Critic Reviews:
Shrewd political history. OClery presents a colorful human-scale saga, full of pathos and pettiness. (As Gorbachev was preparing his farewell address, Yeltsin sent minions to evict his family from their dacha.) But he also illuminates larger historical forces: the revival of nationalist politics in the breakaway Soviet republics; the desperate food shortages as the command economy lost its authority; the social enervation that left no one willing to defend the Soviet system by force. The result is a revealing portrait of one of history's greatest upheavals. (Publishers Weekly, June 15, 2011)
Contact me for any questions: [email protected]