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On My Country and the World / / Mikhail Gorbachev.

Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future pl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Gorbachev, Mikhail,
MitwirkendeR:
Taubman, William,
TeilnehmendeR:
Taubman, William.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
  • Part one. The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance
  • 1. A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity?
  • 2. Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union?
  • 3. Let's Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years
  • 4. October and the World
  • 5. One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About
  • 6. October and Perestroika
  • 7. Does Socialism Have a Future?
  • 8. Summing Up
  • Part two. The Union Could Have Been Preserved
  • 9. A Tragic Turn of Events
  • 10. Tbilisi . . . Baku . . . Vilnius
  • 11. Toward a New Union Treaty
  • 12. Referendum on the Union
  • 13. The Coup: A Stab in the Back-and the Intrigues of Yeltsin
  • 14. The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR
  • 15. What Lies Ahead?
  • Part three. The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  • 16. The Sources of the New Thinking
  • 17. The Very First Steps
  • 18. The Conception (1985-1991)
  • 19. Overcoming the Cold War
  • 20. The Transitional World Order
  • 21. The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World
  • 22. The Challenge of Globalization
  • 23. The Challenge of Diversity
  • 24. The Challenge of Global Problems
  • 25. The Challenge of Power Politics
  • 26. The Challenge of Democracy
  • 27. The Challenge of Universal Human Values
  • 28. The Beginning of History?
  • Index

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