| Gorbachev: On My Country and the World Contributor(s): Gorbachev, Mikhail (Author), Shriver, George (Translator) |
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ISBN: 023150019X ISBN-13: 9780231500197 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $23.79 Product Type: Microsoft Reader Desktop - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 947.085 |
| LCCN: 99031273 |
| Lexile Measure: 1260 |
| Physical Information: 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment, as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev offers his rare perspective on a range of subjects concerning 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. This book traces the arc of the U.S.S.R.'s development from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to its surprisingly swift and sudden collapse in the early 1990s. Gorbachev also constructs a blueprint for where Russia needs to go in the next century, suggesting ways to strengthen the federation and achieve meaningful economic and political reforms. Finally, he examines the "new thinking" in foreign policy that helped to end the Cold War and shows how such approaches could help resolve a range of current crises, including NATO expansion, the role of the UN, the fate of nuclear weapons, and environmental problems. |