Gorbachev and the USSR

Martin Walker, the author of Gorbachev and The USSR, lived for many years in the Soviet Union, whose social, economic, and political realities he knows well. Deeply interested in Gorbachev's complex personality, he dedicated himself to studying the "global restructuring of the Soviet state that Gorbachev undertook with surprising courage."
Gorbachev and the USSR is, therefore, a work that, for the first time, reveals in detail the major transformations in one of the world's greatest powers, transformations that defined a new era and a new policy of international understanding.
Martin Walker's text thus stands at the forefront of works that announced the changes of the final decades of the 20th century, whose consequences were felt at all levels of global balance.