The August Coup – The Truth and the Lessons. Translated by David Floyd.

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The August Coup by Mikhail Gorbachev, signed on bookplate affixed to front end paper. Octavo, 127pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. First edition, second printing with number line ending at “2” on copyright page. In publishers dust jacket, retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, small closed tear at seam of front flap, otherwise very good. Signed by former General Secretary Gorbachev on the front free end paper.

Comments: Mikhail Gorbachev was the eighth and final general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His book, Perestroika, details his “restructuring” of the Soviet state to overcome economic stagnation that had plagued the country for many years.