Gorbachev: His Life and Times test " The Texans who heard

" The Texans who heard him responded with a tremendous rebel yell

which left Boston in March 1847 loaded with precious food for Ireland

teetering on the brink of losing the second most important field army in the Confederacy

to implement Lincoln's wartime policies

000 miles criss-crossing New England

Gorbachev: His Life and Times test " The Texans who heardby William Taubman A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the worlds two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left.