In the mid-1980s Mikhail Gorbachev's political and economic
reforms promised a relaxation of tensions between the U.S.S.R. and
the United States without disturbing the basic balance of power in
Europe established after the Second World War. Then came the
collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the vast democratic revolution that
swept the Soviet empire, creating a power vacuum east of Berlin.
Could such an upheaval have been a natural and logical extension of
the course of reform that Gorbachev began plotting in 1985?
Gorbachev's Revolution argues persuasively that the end of
Communism was never the goal of the Soviet leader but rather the
unintended result of an intense and many-faceted struggle for
power. Anthony D'Agostino demonstrates that the pervasive image of
stable in-system reform in fact ignored evidence from history.
Succession struggles in the U.S.S.R. were generally wars of ideas
in which the victors got their way by challenging their opponents'
interpretations of the past.
Through political memoirs, newspaper accounts, and historical
documents, Gorbachev's Revolution demonstrates once again that
revolutionaries change the world not only according to their own
designs but also according to the world's designs on them.
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