Description: Further DetailsTitle: On My Country and the WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9780231194891ISBN: 9780231194891Edition: twentieth anniversary editionPublisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/24/2019Language: RussianItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Mikhail GorbachevContributor: William Taubman (Foreword by)ISBN-10: 0231194897Description: 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 place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, Gorbachev on the Cold War, and Gorbachev on key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin. The book begins with a look back at 1917. While noting that tsarist Russia was not as backward as it is often portrayed, Gorbachev argues that the Bolshevik Revolution was inevitable and that it did much to modernize Russia. He strongly argues that the Soviet Union had a positive influence on social policy in the West, while maintaining that the development of socialism was cut short by Stalinist totalitarianism. In the next section, Gorbachev considers the fall of the USSR. What were the goals of perestroika? How did such a vast superpower disintegrate so quickly? From the awakening of ethnic tensions, to the inability of democrats to unite, to his own attempts to reform but preserve the union, Gorbachev retraces those fateful days and explains the origins of Russia's present crises. But Gorbachev does not just train his critical eye on the past. He lays out a blueprint for where Russia needs to go in the twenty-first century, suggesting ways to strengthen the federation and achieve meaningful economic and political reforms. In the final section of the book, Gorbachev 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 crises, including NATO expansion, the role of the UN, the fate of nuclear weapons, and environmental problems. On My Country and the World reveals the unique vision of a man who was a powerful actor on the world stage and remains a keen observer of Russia's experience in the twentieth century.This anniversary edition features a new foreword by William Taubman, award-winning biographer of Khrushchev and Gorbachev.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Biography, HistoryRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: On My Country and the World
Title: On My Country and the World
EAN: 9780231194891
ISBN: 9780231194891
Edition: twentieth anniversary edition
Release Date: 12/24/2019
Release Year: 2019
Contributor: William Taubman (Foreword by)
ISBN-10: 0231194897
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: On My Country and the World
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Political
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.6 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
Subject Area: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
