3. Let’s Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION vii
4. Part one. The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance
5. 1. A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity? 3
6. 2. Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union? 13
7. 3. Let’s Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years 25
8. 4. October and the World 38
9. 5. One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About 47
10. 6. October and Perestroika 55
11. 7. Does Socialism Have a Future? 67
12. 8. Summing Up 77
13. Part two. The Union Could Have Been Preserved
14. 9. A Tragic Turn of Events 83
15. 10. Tbilisi . . . Baku . . . Vilnius 94
16. 11. Toward a New Union Treaty 105
17. 12. Referendum on the Union 118
18. 13. The Coup: A Stab in the Back-and the Intrigues of Yeltsin 134
19. 14. The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR 149
20. 15. What Lies Ahead? 162
21. Part three. The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
22. 16. The Sources of the New Thinking 171
23. 17. The Very First Steps 179
24. 18. The Conception (1985–1991) 187
25. 19. Overcoming the Cold War 194
26. 20. The Transitional World Order 208
27. 21. The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World 215
28. 22. The Challenge of Globalization 223
29. 23. The Challenge of Diversity 231
30. 24. The Challenge of Global Problems 240
31. 25. The Challenge of Power Politics 248
32. 26. The Challenge of Democracy 261
33. 27. The Challenge of Universal Human Values 268
34. 28. The Beginning of History? 275
35. Index 279