Conversations with Gorbachev : : On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism / / Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Gorbachev, Mikhail,; Mlynar, Zdenek,
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Archie,; Shriver, George,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Archie.; Gorbachev, Mikhail.; Shriver, George.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics.In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that "thinking out loud" process. It is an absorbing record of two friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to "save socialism" to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Translators' Note -- Authors' Preface -- CONVERSATION ONE THE CRISS-CROSSING OF OUR PATHS -- CONVERSATION TWO HOW WE SOUGHT TO REINVIGORATE SOCIALISM -- CONVERSATION THREE THERE'S ONLY ONE WORLD -- CONCLUDING THOU GHTS THE CONSCIENCE OF THE REFORMER -- Index