Book Description
Relates the Soviet changes in attitudes, ideas, and practices that he is implementing.
Author : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
Publisher : Fontana Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Relates the Soviet changes in attitudes, ideas, and practices that he is implementing.
Author : Rachel Walker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Perestroĭka
ISBN : 9780719032875
Focuses on the six years of perestroika in the Soviet Union and suggests that many of the problems confronting the new states were first created during this time. The book tries to explore and explain some of these developments, covering events up to August 1992.
Author : Михаил Сергеевич Горбачев
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :
Contains primary source material.
Author : Brian McNair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2006-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134960220
The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its theoretical origins in the writings of Marx and Lenin to the new freedoms of the Gorbachev era. The book includes detailed analysis of contemporary Soviet media output, as well as interviews with Soviet journalists.
Author : Chris Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1469630184
For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of transitions from socialism to capitalism, Deng Xiaoping's China. Why, then, were efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism so much less successful than in China? Making use of never-before-studied documents from the Soviet politburo and other archives, Miller argues that the difference between the Soviet Union and China--and the ultimate cause of the Soviet collapse--was not economics but politics. The Soviet government was divided by bitter conflict, and Gorbachev, the ostensible Soviet autocrat, was unable to outmaneuver the interest groups that were threatened by his economic reforms. Miller's analysis settles long-standing debates about the politics and economics of perestroika, transforming our understanding of the causes of the Soviet Union's rapid demise.
Author : Mikhail Gorbachev
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231529279
Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that “thinking out loud” process. It is an absorbing record of two friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to “save socialism” to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.
Author : Chris Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1000305813
First published in 1990. This volume of The Soviet Union 1988/89- the tenth in a series appearing since 1973- attempts to describe dramatic developments in domestic policy, problems of economic development, and efforts to change course in foreign policy and alter the image of the USSR in the international system.
Author : Martin McCauley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349207268
This book provides a narrative and analysis of the first four years of the Gorbachev phenomenon. All areas of great significance are covered. Special attention is paid to the economy, nationality affairs and foreign affairs. Gorbachev's standing abroad is much higher than at home. Seen by many abroad as a charismatic figure, he has still to convince the average worker and farmer that perestroika is good for them. The first four years present a fascinating tableau of Soviet change and resistance to change. This book provides the reader with the insights to understand the processes now under way in the largest country in the world. For those who wish to be informed about the Soviet Union and aim to follow events there, it will be required reading.
Author : Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393309041
A political commentator discusses the rise and fall of Mikhail Gorbachev, revealing Gorbachev as a reluctant reformer, who did nothing to counter the nation's overindulgence of heavy industry.
Author : Alec Nove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134868871
Based on personal experience of life in the Soviet Union Nove explains the phenomenon of Stalinism and its aftermath. In highly readable style, Professor Nove traces the origins of Stalinism, analyzes its nature and achievements, examines the process of destalinization which followed Stalin's death, and explores the evolution of the Soviet system under Krushchev and Brezhnev. Stalinism and After is not a biography; it is a study of the effect of the political personalities of one man and his successors on the development of Soviet history. It is within this context that Professor Nove examines the new thinking of Gorbachev and the now-familiar catchwords of his regime: perestroika, glasnost, demokratizatsiya, and uskoreniye.