From the author of 'Gulf-Diary of the Microchip War', this concise history, also re-edited by the original author of the 1991 paperback, whilst not intended as a biography, covers the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev through the ranks of the Communist Party but primarily covers events during the 1991 August coup that shook the world, and the follow on effects this had on the USSR which eventually led to his resignation as Soviet president on 25 December 1991. . The title reference 'fall of a hero' refers in essence to the change of opinion within Soviet society of the man who initiated Perestroika

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