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Voices of Glasnost - Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R608
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Voices of Glasnost - Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Paperback, New Ed): Stephen F. Cohen, Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Voices of Glasnost - Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Paperback, New Ed)

Stephen F. Cohen, Katrina Vanden Heuvel

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Cohen (Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution; Rethinking the Soviet Experience; Sovieticus), Professor of Russian Studies at Princeton, and vander Heuvel, an editor at The Nation, held intensive conversations with 14 Soviet public officials on the policies of glasnost and perestroika The result is as intimate a portrait of Soviet politics, culture, and economics as we are likely to see. Though somewhat similar in concept to the recently published proposed yearbook, Perestroika 1989, edited by Abel Aganbegyen, the volume at hand is superior in that those interviewed are all prestigious figures in the Soviet hierarchy with strong connections to Gorbachev himself. Important figures such as Yakovlev, Smirnov, Velikhov, and Arbatov reach a consensus that, among other things, agrees that any failure of peresstroika would be the death knell of socialism (Smirnov: "There is no alternative that could bring good results"); that righting the historical record about Stalinist terror is easier said than done (Manasyev: "After all, a regime that murdered millions of people certainly wouldn't have hesitated to destroy pieces of paper"); and that the movement toward democratization in the Soviet Union does have its limits - it must be within a one-party framework: partiinost (Smirnov, again: "We need one good party with a general line that is intelligent, not blockheaded"). Gorbachev, in other words, still has a long way to go in order to be secure with his position. As pictured here, two of the biggest obstacles still ahead are the entrenched bureaucratism (at the beginning of the Gorbachev era, nearly 18 million people were employed by the Soviet government) and the concomitant tendency, as described by filmmaker Klimov, for officials to "want to ration glasnost from above." Overall, one of the more stimulating reads in a field vastly overcrowded. (Kirkus Reviews)
Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers

"As intimate a portrait of Soviet politics, culture, and economics as we are likely to see."—Kirkus Reviews

"Voices of Glasnost will be referred to for years to come as a guide to the zesty personalities of the latest Russian revolution."—Newsweek

"A sharp challenge to both those who think that nothing has changed in the Soviet Union and to those who think that everything has."—New York Times Book Review

"Much is said here that is admirable, thought-provoking, even poignant. . . . A complex portrait of a group of unusual people."—Washington Post Book World

"Stands above the heap of recent Gorbyiana. . . . Contains a spectacularly lucid introduction by Stephen Cohen. . . . The 14 interviews themselves are of permanent interest."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch


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Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1991
First published: February 1991
Authors: Stephen F. Cohen • Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Dimensions: 236 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30735-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
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LSN: 0-393-30735-2
Barcode: 9780393307351

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