Conversations with Gorbachev : on perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the crossroads of socialism / Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdeněk Mlynář ; translated by George Shriver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022.

Contributor:

Mlynář, Zdeněk.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022--Interviews.

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich.

Mlynář, Zdeněk--Interviews.

Mlynář, Zdeněk.

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022.

Perestroĭka.

Czechoslovakia--History--Intervention, 1968.

Czechoslovakia.

History.

Socialism.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxv, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

Readers are invited to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation between one of the towering figures of the 20th century and his closest friend as they chat about the momentous events they lived through and helped orchestrate.

Contents:

Conversation 1 The Criss-Crossing of Our Paths 11

1. Student Communists 13

2. New Hopes and New Disappointments 28

3. Twenty Years, Divergent Paths 39

Conversation 2 How We Sought to Reinvigorate Socialism 55

1. The Prague Spring and Its Defeat 57

2. More Democracy, More Socialism 66

3. Freedom of Choice Either Exists or It Doesn't 75

4. An Airplane That Took Off Without Knowing Where to Land 91

5. What to Do With the Party? 102

6. Can the Use of Force "Save Socialism"? 127

Conversation 3 There's Only One World 135

1. Breaking Out of the Dead End of the Cold War 137

2. Socialism Is Alive as a World Process 146

3. At a Crossroads of Civilization 172

Concluding Thoughts: The Conscience of the Reformer 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231118643

OCLC:

48544277