Title On my country and the world / Gorbachev

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages) 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? Summary "Drawing on his own experience and rich archival material, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind not only on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place in the world but also on the emerging global realities of the twenty-first century. In this book Gorbachev discusses the October Revolution, the Cold War, key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin, nuclear proliferation, and NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia."--Jacket Notes Includes index Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022 fast Subject World politics -- 1989- HISTORY. HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Philosophy Political and social views World politics Politiek. Communisme. Internationale betrekkingen. SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- Philosophy Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1991- -- Philosophy Subject Russia (Federation) Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 023150019X 9780231500197

Other Titles Razmyshleniia o proshlom i budushchem. English Gorbachev--on my country and the world

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