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On My Country and the World (Hardcover, twentieth anniversary edition)
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On My Country and the World (Hardcover, twentieth anniversary edition)
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Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as
told by its last steward. 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, Gorbachev on the Cold War, and
Gorbachev on key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin. The
book begins with a look back at 1917. While noting that tsarist
Russia was not as backward as it is often portrayed, Gorbachev
argues that the Bolshevik Revolution was inevitable and that it did
much to modernize Russia. He strongly argues that the Soviet Union
had a positive influence on social policy in the West, while
maintaining that the development of socialism was cut short by
Stalinist totalitarianism. In the next section, Gorbachev considers
the fall of the USSR. What were the goals of perestroika? How did
such a vast superpower disintegrate so quickly? From the awakening
of ethnic tensions, to the inability of democrats to unite, to his
own attempts to reform but preserve the union, Gorbachev retraces
those fateful days and explains the origins of Russia's present
crises. But Gorbachev does not just train his critical eye on the
past. He lays out a blueprint for where Russia needs to go in the
twenty-first century, suggesting ways to strengthen the federation
and achieve meaningful economic and political reforms. In the final
section of the book, Gorbachev examines the "new thinking" in
foreign policy that helped to end the Cold War and shows how such
approaches could help resolve a range of crises, including NATO
expansion, the role of the UN, the fate of nuclear weapons, and
environmental problems. On My Country and the World reveals the
unique vision of a man who was a powerful actor on the world stage
and remains a keen observer of Russia's experience in the twentieth
century. This anniversary edition features a new foreword by
William Taubman, award-winning biographer of Khrushchev and
Gorbachev.
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