Did you write this book . Mr. Gorbachev everyone is writing books. I sometimes read books about perestroika, and so my name in those books, but the rest was totally false, stupid, silly. A lot of rumors. A lot of speculation. Some other books are quite serious, of course. I dont want to over dramatize it. But i thought that i am the principal witness and the principal person who bears responsibility for what happened, and i believed it was important for me to ask plane my position about how i started reforms and why i came around to the view that reforms were necessary. Why did i decide, and how did that decision about reforms emerge, and how difficult that process was. So i thought it was important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had farreaching consequences for my country and for the world. I could not accept it when people speak of gorbachev. I had to speak out. I had to avoid the temptation of writers to show myself in better light. I tried to keep
Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i tried to avoid the temptation of the writers of many memoirs to prettify myself, to show myself in better life. I tried to keep within the facts. I have a lot of facts about various events, about all that happened and about my relationship with various people in domestic and international politics. I could say a lot. I tried to write about the most important things. At first i dictated 10,000 pages of material. Here, this book is equivalent to 1,000 pages of typewr
Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i tried to avoid the temptation of the writers of many memoirs to prettify myself, to show myself in better life. I tried to keep within the facts. I have a lot of facts about various events, about all that happened and about my relationship with various people in domestic and international politics. I could say a lot. I tried to write about the most important things. At first i dictated 10,000 pages of material. Here, this book is equivalent to 1,000 pages of typewr