William Taubman.
WILLIAM TAUBMAN
GORBACHEV: HIS LIFE AND TIMES (2017)
Mikhail Gorbachev (born 1931) was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 untill the abolition of the union in 1991. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union he resigned the presidency, giving way to his successor Boris Yeltsin.
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William Taubman (born 1941) is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. He obtained his BA from Harvard University, and his MA and PhD from Columbia University, His biography of Nikita Kruschev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004. He is the son of Nora Stern, a teacher, and Howard Taubman who was a critic for both music and theatre at the New York Times.
