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Gorbachev: The Man and the System portrays Gorbachev's rise to
power and his tenure in office against the background of a period
of critical change and development in the Soviet system. The
research is primarily based on Soviet materials, supplemented and
critically compared with a wide range of Western press and academic
studies. Both Zemtsov and Farrar bring to the analysis their own
experiences, acquired under different circumstances.Part I focuses
on a selected chronology of significant events from Gorbachev's
assumption of power in March 1985 to June 1987. The authors examine
leadership and personnel changes, the economy, the society, and the
arts. Part II takes a look at foreign policies by examining:
relations with the United States and the industrialized West; arms
control policy; relations with Eastern Europe; relations with the
People's Republic of China; and relations with the third world.
Part III explores Gorbachev's military policies. Part IV concludes
with the authors' assessment of the future. Included in this book
are appendices on: changes in the Council of Ministers, Ministers,
and Chairmen of State Committees; Politburo and central committee
meetings since Gorbachev became General Secretary, through June
1987; and announced changes in the Diplomatic Corps and Foreign
Ministry as reported in the Soviet press. The hardcover edition of
this book was published in Gorbachev's early years. It thus
represents an early assessment, and as such a document of events at
the time they occurred. Renewed interest in communism, and in the
dissolution of the Soviet Union make this paperback edition timely.
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