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The new Russia / Mikhail Gorbachev.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781509503872 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xi, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: English edition.
- Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | First published in Russian as Posle Kremlya, Moskva : Vesʹ Mir, 2014. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | To my readers -- Preface: Perestroika and the future -- Trying to bury me -- I. After Perestroika -- The 1990s : Defending Perestroika -- Shock therapy -- Fateful decisions, fateful days -- 1994 gets off to a bad start -- 1995 : 10 years of Perestroika -- The need for an alternative -- The final years of the millennium -- II. Whither Russia? -- Putin : the beginning -- Full of contradictions : the first decade of the new millennium -- The presidential "reshuffle" and the Duma elections -- III. Today's uneasy world -- The relevance of New Thinking -- Responding to the environmental challenge-- Meetings in America -- The future of Europe -- Looking East -- Simmering Regions -- Conclusion -- Reflections of an optimist. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Part from 1985 to 1991. Since then, he has maintained an active role in world affairs through the Gorbachev Foundation, a non-profit think tank which promotes democracy and humanitarian initiatives globally.
