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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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- WILEY
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putinâs motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russiaâs elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the development of Putinâs regime and the intentions behind it. He argues that Putin has significantly diminished the achievements of perestroika and is part of an over-centralized system that presents a precarious future for Russia. Faced with this, Gorbachev advocates a radical reform of politics and a new fostering of pluralism and social democracy.
Gorbachevâs insightful analysis moves beyond internal politics to address wider problems in the region, including the Ukraine conflict, as well as the global challenges of poverty and climate change. Above all else, he insists that solutions are to be found by returning to the atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation which was so instrumental in ending the Cold War.
This book represents the summation of Gorbachevâs thinking on the course that Russia has taken since 1991 and stands as a testament to one of the greatest and most influential statesmen of the twentieth century.
