The new Russia

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931- (author.). Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931- translation of: Posle Kremli͡a︡. English. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781509503872 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
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.