On the Edge of an Abyss

by Alexander N. Yakovlev

400 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Я́ковлев; 1923–2005) was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. A member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout the 1980s, he was termed the "godfather of glasnost", and was the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme of glasnost and perestroika.

Ses also: Александр Николаевич Яковлев