Moscow, December 25th, 1991 by Conor O'Clery

'Sobre este título' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. Moscow, Decemis set to become the defining book on the fall of the Soviet Union. The book is written at a breathtaking, dramatic pace, drawing the reader in as it focuses equally on the personal and historical stories. The result is an intricately detailed, thoroughly researched book, based on interviews with many of the key figures in a drama of Shakespearean intensity as well as contemporary reportage, the memoirs and diaries of key political figures and official documents. Conor O’Clery’s popular history of this last day of the Soviet Union is as much a minute-by-minute account of December 25, 1991, as it is a recapitulation of all the bad blood.

From there, O’Clery looks back over the events of the previous six years: Gorbachev’s reform policies of glasnost and perestroika Yeltsin’s ignominious fall and then rise to the top the defiance of the once docile Soviet republics the failed August coup by the hardliners and the events that swiftly followed until a secret meeting in a central European forest sealed the fate of the communist monolith and the clock ticked down to the last day. On the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War, Conor O’Clery has built his compelling and brilliantly reconstructed narrative of the fall of the Soviet Union around one day, December 25, 1991, the date Gorbachev resigned and the USSR was effectively consigned to history. And when it comes to the fall of the Soviet Union, the details are crucial, especially when such an era-defining event hinged on the bitter personal relationship between two powerful men, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Following the footsteps of a remarkable family Conor O'Clery knows well - he is married to the shoemaker's daughter - it's both a compelling insight into life in a secretive world at a siesmic moment in time and a powerful tale of ordinary lives shaped by extraordinary times.History always comes down to the details. The Shoemaker and His Daughter is an epic story spanning the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, taking in eighty years of Soviet and Russian history, from Stalin to Putin. In a climate that's unfriendly both geographically and politically, it's their chance to start again. On his release, social shame drives him and his family into voluntary exile in Siberia, 5,000 kilometres from home. Gifted shoemaker Stanislav Suvorov is imprisoned for five years. O'Clery is a gifted writer' Luke Harding, bestselling author of Collusion Love, politics, murder, wars, and the fracturing of ties, personal and ethnic. An arresting and evocative story' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland Moscow, DecemThe Last Day of the Soviet Union by Conor O’Clery ebook Trade Paperback 11. 'O'Clery takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia.

Moscow, December 25th, 1991 by Conor O'Clery