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 place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin.
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 place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin.
Mikhail Gorbachev was general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, and president of the Soviet Union, 1988-1991. He founded and directed the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow. He is also the author of Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations, The Search for a New Beginning: Developing a New Civilization, and The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons. George Shriver has translated and edited many books, including Nikolai Bukharin's How It All Began: The Prison Novel and Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissent, The October Revolution, Let History Judge, and Post-Soviet Russia (all published by Columbia). William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. He is the author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography, and Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017).
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by William Taubman Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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
Foreword to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by William Taubman Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
