Gorbachev's secrets: Unveiling the 80s, First-Hand stories he told me

by János Zolcer

Former Soviet president Gorbachev and a A 20-year friendship.“We have nuclear missiles but no female underwear, why is that?” said Mikhail Gorbachev at some stage of his life. Believe it or not, the question was real in the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev told author János Zolcer about this strange sounding but symbolic ’dilemma’. Zolcer gives us the unique opportunity for a look behind the scenes of the former superpower with a bouquet of stories in his hybrid book. Zolcer’s overall question is there an objective truth to the Gorbachev story, to history? 450 pages, 200 photographs, 250 virtual footnotes, 100 videos come with this book.“I got as close as possible to the ’objective truth’,“ says János Zolcer, author of the book Gorbachev’s Secrets, “Which other journalist has ever had the chance to have discussions about world-changing topics, with top politicians at the same table, at the same time with Gorbachev? For weeks on end, we were together with politicians like George H.W. Bush, Helmut Kohl, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Shimon Peres – just to name a few. Believe me, it was a unique chance to really understand the historic events from all angles!”Many of us do remember the former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, many younger ones don’t. Do you? Did you know his breathtaking, sometimes even chilling personal and public story? How the young peasant boy turned into one of the most powerful politicians of the world? How he succeeded – even by risking his own life – in bringing about changes into the world that we all still rely on? Did you know how he did that despite all the animosities around him?Zolcer answers many more questions for you with his collection of 35 first-hand entertaining and exciting stories. You get behind-the scenes insight into a dark, sometimes even mythical environment around one of the greatest politicians of the world, Mikhail Gorbachev, the former powerful ruler of the former great power, the Soviet Union. The decades of Cold War, the superpowers – and the key politicians involved unfold in this book. Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who found the key to peaceful change in a world which seemed to be stuck in aggression, tension, propaganda tricks and stiff, traditional power structures. We would all not be where we are today without the peaceful changes that this exceptional, brave man introduced. Author János Zolcer was the lucky one to get a look behind the scenes of global politics. For the past 20 years, Zolcer has maintained a close friendship with Mikhail Gorbachev who is now 90 years old – and he shows us how Mikhail Gorbachev found the key to peaceful change in the world. And last but not This is a documentary tale about the poor peasant boy who turns in to one of the most powerful men of the world. His secret? A dream, perseverance, and action…Zolcer is a real storyteller, he fascinates us with a new book genre the documentary tale. Get immersed into the world where Zolcer met many of the significant international political string pullers connected to Mikhail Gorbachev. This is a page turner for those who want to know how the world got to where it is now, how important it is to dream our dreams and to act, whatever it takes.The first edition of Gorbachev’s Secrets quickly proved a bestseller all over the world for Hungarian readers – finally, now you can enjoy reading it in English, too.

722 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 2, 2021

Reviews

[Marian · Rating 5 out of 5]

the only book about Gorbachev with introduction written by Gorbachev himself