Review of Meeting Gorbachev (2019) by Joshua Keating for Slate — 01 May 2019
The moment when things clicked into place for me was when Herzog, in his trademark Bavarian deadpan, read a quotation from Alexander Yakovlev, one of Gorbachev’s key advisers during perestroika: “It was as if we were blind men trying to trade a mirror to deaf people in exchange for a balalaika”—a Herzogian image if there ever was one.
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This review of Meeting Gorbachev (2019) was written by Joshua Keating and published by Slate on 01 May 2019.
Meeting Gorbachev has generally received positive reviews.
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