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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
An Illustrated Report on Mikhail Gorbachev's Visit to the USA
Author: The New Russia
Author: Mikhail GorbachevPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509503919
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia’s elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the development of Putin’s regime and the intentions behind it. He argues that Putin has significantly diminished the achievements of perestroika and is part of an over-centralized system that presents a precarious future for Russia. Faced with this, Gorbachev advocates a radical reform of politics and a new fostering of pluralism and social democracy. Gorbachev’s insightful analysis moves beyond internal politics to address wider problems in the region, including the Ukraine conflict, as well as the global challenges of poverty and climate change. Above all else, he insists that solutions are to be found by returning to the atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation which was so instrumental in ending the Cold War. This book represents the summation of Gorbachev’s thinking on the course that Russia has taken since 1991 and stands as a testament to one of the greatest and most influential statesmen of the twentieth century.
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
Author: William TaubmanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “Essential reading for the twenty-first [century].” —Radhika Jones, The New York Times Book Review In the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down, found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan, and permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.
Bibliographic Guide to Soviet and East European Studies, 1992
Author: G. K. Hall and Co. StaffPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780816116829
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Journey to the Soviet Union
Author: Samantha SmithPublisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316801751
Category : Children's writings
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A ten-year-old from Maine describes her trip to Russia at the invitation of Yuri Andropov after writing him a letter expressing her fears about a nuclear war.
USSR Facts & Figures Annual
Author: Mission Failure
Author: Michael MandelbaumPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019046948X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values and American institutions throughout the world. In the decades before the Cold War ended the United States, like virtually every other country throughout history, used its military power to defend against threats to important American international interests or to the American homeland itself. When the Cold War concluded, however, it embarked on military interventions in places where American interests were not at stake. Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo had no strategic or economic importance for the United States, which intervened in all of them for purely humanitarian reasons. Each such intervention led to efforts to transform the local political and economic systems. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, turned into similar missions of transformation. None of them achieved its aims. Mission Failure describes and explains how such missions came to be central to America's post-Cold War foreign policy, even in relations with China and Russia in the early 1990s and in American diplomacy in the Middle East, and how they all failed. Mandelbaum shows how American efforts to bring peace, national unity, democracy, and free-market economies to poor, disorderly countries ran afoul of ethnic and sectarian loyalties and hatreds and foundered as well on the absence of the historical experiences and political habits, skills, and values that Western institutions require. The history of American foreign policy in the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is, he writes, "the story of good, sometimes noble, and thoroughly American intentions coming up against the deeply embedded, often harsh, and profoundly un-American realities of places far from the United States. In this encounter the realities prevailed."
Soviet Life
Author: The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries
Author: Peter D. SkirbuntPublisher: Defense Commissary Agency Office of Corporate Communications
ISBN: 9780160817861
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.
The Illustrated History of American Military Commissaries: The Defense Commissary Agency and its predecessors, since 1989
Author: Peter D. SkirbuntPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Presents a comprehensive history spanning the 233 years of the four major services' sales commissaries.