TY - BOOK AU - BROWN Archie TI - The Gorbachev factor SN - 0198273444 (hbk.) PY - 1996/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - BIOGRAPHIES KW - GORBACHEV KW - POLITICAL LEADERS KW - SOVIET UNION N2 - A biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, a Soviet political leader who played an important role in the ending of the Cold War. This book discusses Gorbachev's political rise and fall, his contribution to the changes in the Soviet Union and his struggle to retain union in the USSR ER -