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On My Country and the World
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Preface by:
William Taubman
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2019
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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.
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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).
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).
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CONTENTS
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FOREWORD TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
vii - Part one. The October Revolution: Its Sense and Significance
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1. A Blunder of History, Accident, or Necessity?
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2. Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union?
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3. Let’s Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years
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4. October and the World
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5. One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About
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6. October and Perestroika
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7. Does Socialism Have a Future?
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8. Summing Up
77 - Part two. The Union Could Have Been Preserved
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9. A Tragic Turn of Events
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10. Tbilisi . . . Baku . . . Vilnius
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11. Toward a New Union Treaty
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12. Referendum on the Union
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13. The Coup: A Stab in the Back-and the Intrigues of Yeltsin
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14. The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR
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15. What Lies Ahead?
162 - Part three. The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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16. The Sources of the New Thinking
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17. The Very First Steps
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18. The Conception (1985–1991)
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19. Overcoming the Cold War
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20. The Transitional World Order
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21. The New Thinking in the Post-Confrontational World
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22. The Challenge of Globalization
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23. The Challenge of Diversity
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24. The Challenge of Global Problems
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25. The Challenge of Power Politics
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26. The Challenge of Democracy
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27. The Challenge of Universal Human Values
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28. The Beginning of History?
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Index
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9780231551069
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