I Hope Reminiscences and Reflections Author:Raisa Gorbachev, David Floyd (Translator) The perestroika years awakened new hopes among the Soviet people for change and prosperity in their country. In this book, Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the President of the USSR, gives her own personal (and self-serving) response to the changes taking place in the Soviet Union, reflecting on her life, her marriage and her husband's reforms, and ... more »discussing the role of women and the family and the newly-found religious tolerance in the USSR.« less