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On My Country and the World
Taschenbuch von Mikhail Gorbachev
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
Über den Autor
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).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780231194891
ISBN-10: 0231194897
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gorbachev, Mikhail
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 222 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Mikhail Gorbachev
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.12.2019
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 116709022
Über den Autor
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).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780231194891
ISBN-10: 0231194897
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gorbachev, Mikhail
Hersteller: Columbia University Press
Maße: 222 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Mikhail Gorbachev
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.12.2019
Gewicht: 0,442 kg
Artikel-ID: 116709022
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