Gorbachev. A person who wanted the best. Grachev A.

The author of the book is an adviser, press secretary of Mikhail Gorbachev.

The unique biography of the last leader of the Soviet Union and the Nobel Laureate of the World. This is a psychological portrait of a person, politics, a leader who was destined to change the course of history. Why did Gorbachev headed the USSR before the collapse of the empire? Was he the initiator of dramatic processes in the global policy of the late XX century or simply obeyed the logic of what was happening? Why did Gorbachev not hold on at any cost of power and allowed an attempt to a coup, and then voluntarily resigned? What brought Gorbachev and his wife Raisu for all his life?

The book was built on exclusive materials: many hours of conversations of the author with Gorbachev, Raisa Maximovna and their daughter Irina; With people surrounding the Secretary General and President who supported him or fighting him. It contains excerpts from the little -known documents of the Politburo and the Presidential Council.