Final Days

In this book, the author, press secretary to Mikhail Gorbachev, highlights top-level meetings with Western leaders; State Council debates on a new treaty of union; and Gorbachev's private talks with leading members of government, business, and religious and cultural circles around the world.

Autorentext
Sneja Gunew taught for many years in literary studies at Deakin University and has recently accepted an appointment at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She has edited or co-edited four anthologies of women's and multicultural writings. She is the editor of Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct and A Reader in Feminist Knowledge (Routledge, 1990). She has published numerous critical essays (nationally and internationally) on feminist literary theory and on multiculturalism in its various formations. She co-edited Striking Chords: Multicultural Literary Interpretations (1992) and was one of the compilers of A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers (1992). Anna Yeatman was foundation professor of Women's Studies at the University of Waikato, 1991-93. She is professor of Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research interests cover feminist theory, the implications of globalization for the polity, the restructuring of the professions and higher education. She has undertaken a number of public policy consultancies, including two research reports for the Australian Office of Multicultural Affairs. Recent publications include Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats: Essays on the Contemporary Australian State, Allen & Unwin 1990; editor and contributor to a special issue of Social Analysis (no. 30, 1991) on 'Postmodern Critical Theorizing'; and a book on Postmodernism and the Revisioning of the Political, forthcoming Routledge, New York 1993.

Inhalt
Foreword -- Preface -- Mending the Breach -- Reinforcements from the Second Front -- On a Crumbling Verge -- A President Without a Country -- One Last Mission for the Union -- On the Eve of the Seventy-Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution -- The Mirage of a Confederal State -- A Free Man with Nothing to Fear -- A Cloud in Trousers -- Fight to the Finish -- Final Hours -- Checking the Pulse -- Last Rites -- Burying a Time Capsule -- Departure -- Afterword: A Mythical Kingdom VanishesAgain -- Appendix: Resignation Speech of Mikhail Gorbachev