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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931- On my country and the world. New York : Columbia University Press, c2000 (OCoLC)607440755 |
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| Named Person: | Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev; M S Gorbachev |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev |
| ISBN: | 0231115148 9780231115148 0231115156 9780231115155 |
| OCLC Number: | 41320193 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 300 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance -- A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity? -- Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union? -- Let's Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years -- October and the World -- One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About -- October and Perestroika -- Does Socialism Have a Future? -- The Union Could Have Been Preserved -- A Tragic Turn of Events -- Tbilisi ... Baku ... Vilnius -- Toward a New Union Treaty -- Referendum on the Union -- The Coup: A Stab in the Back--and the Intrigues of Yeltsin -- The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR -- What Lies Ahead? -- The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow -- The Sources of the New Thinking -- The Very First Steps -- The Conception (1985-1991) -- Overcoming the Cold War -- The Transitional World Order -- The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World -- The Challenge of Globalization -- The Challenge of Diversity -- The Challenge of Global Problems -- The Challenge of Power Politics -- The Challenge of Democracy -- The Challenge of Universal Human Values -- The Beginning of History?. |
| Other Titles: | Razmyshlenii︠a︡ o proshlom i budushchem. Gorbachev--on my country and the world |
| Responsibility: | Gorbachev. |
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Abstract:
Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience, as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience as well as rich archival material, Gorbachev ponders Russia's past, present, and future place in the world -- including the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin.
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We find passages of perceptive analysis that we should not ignore. Foreign Affairs Gorbachev's authorship alone makes this book an important text... [His] take on history and his analysis of global issues are unique and provocative no matter where one stands in the political spectrum. Booklist (starred review) Read more...
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- Soviet Union -- History -- Philosophy.
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