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The new Russia / Mikhail Gorbachev ; translated by Arch Tait.
Van Pelt Library DK290.3.G67 G67213 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Posle Kremliı̐ aı̐Ł. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022.
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich.
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022--Political and social views.
- Kommunisticheskaiı̐ aı̐Ł partiiı̐ aı̐Ł Sovetskogo Soiı̐ uı̐Łza--Biography.
- Kommunisticheskaiı̐ aı̐Ł partiiı̐ aı̐Ł Sovetskogo Soiı̐ uı̐Łza.
- Presidents--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Ex-presidents--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Ex-presidents.
- Perestro♯Ưka--History.
- Perestro♯Ưka.
- Political culture.
- History.
- Social change.
- Political and social views.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
- Soviet Union.
- Politics and government.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Russia (Federation).
- Social change--Russia (Federation)--History.
- Political culture--Russia (Federation)--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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. 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.
- Contents:
- Trying to Bury Me 1
- I After Perestroika
- The 1990s: Defending Perestroika 15
- My last day in the Kremlin 15
- A new beginning, without presidential immunity 20
- Shock Therapy 23
- The search for a scapegoat, threats 25
- The Gorbachev Foundation: its first reports 28
- December 1991: politics and morality 29
- Salvation in work 34
- Attempts to 'destabilize' me 36
- The 'Trial of the CPSU' 38
- First results of shock therapy 43
- A year after the coup 44
- My stance 45
- The slide towards social catastrophe 54
- On the brink of crisis 57
- Fateful Decisions, Fateful Days 62
- A state of emergency is not the way to stability 70
- Defects of the new constitution 74
- 1994 Gets Off to a Bad Start 76
- Economists advise, but the government is not listening 78
- Nikita Khrushchev: lessons in courage and lessons from mistakes 82
- The Union could have been saved 85
- The economy: what now? 86
- Meetings in the regions 87
- Chechnya: a war that could have been avoided 90
- 1995:10 Years of Perestroika 96
- The intelligentsia 96
- Government and society 98
- The Need for an Alternative 102
- Breaking through the conspiracy of silence 107
- Letters relating to the 1996 presidential election campaign 114
- Discrediting elections 116
- The Final Years of the Millennium 120
- The Gorbachev Foundation's 'First Five-Year Plan' 120
- The elections fail to bring stability 124
- The storm breaks in 1998 127
- How to come out of the crisis? 130
- Letters of support 133
- Raisa Gorbacheva 135
- II Whither Russia?
- Putin: The Beginning 141
- The new president: hopes, problems, fears 145
- What is Glasnost? 147
- The heavy burden of the presidency 149
- My social democratic choice 152
- Russia needs social democracy 156
- Issues and more issues 162
- The zero years of the 2000s? 168
- The Yukos affair 172
- A party of new bureaucrats 175
- A second presidential term: what for? 180
- A new direction, or more of the same? 191
- Full of Contradictions: The First Decade of the New Millennium 200
- New elections 200
- Democracy in distress 203
- Operation Successor 213
- Ideas and people 217
- Saakashvili's adventure and the West: my reaction 221
- Ordeal by global crisis 229
- Defending the credo of Perestroika 235
- Disturbing trends 241
- My 80th birthday 246
- Russian politics in a quandary 252
- A new Era of Stagnation? 258
- The Presidential 'Reshuffle' and the Duma Elections 262
- For fair elections! 265
- Society awakens 272
- A decision to tighten the screws 276
- Some letters of support in recent years 281
- The need for dialogue between the government and society 287
- III Today's Uneasy World
- The Relevance of New Thinking 293
- Challenges of globalization 296
- The challenge of security 299
- Ban the bomb! 301
- Consequences of NATO expansion 306
- The world after 9/11 309
- Poverty is a political problem 314
- Responding to the Environmental Challenge 320
- The water crisis 325
- The threat of climate change 327
- We need a new model of development 329
- Meetings in America 335
- George Shultz and Ronald Reagan 335
- Partners should be equal 346
- The role of the United States in the world 350
- 'America needs its own Perestroika' 353
- The election of Obama 357
- The Future of Europe 362
- Germany 367
- On a solid foundation 378
- Major figures in European politics 382
- Looking East 387
- China 387
- Russia and Japan 393
- Simmering Regions 396
- Egypt and Syria 396
- Russia and Ukraine 401
- History is not fated 406.
- Notes:
- First published in Russian as Posle Kremlya, Moskva : Vesʣ Mir, 2015.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931- New Russia
- ISBN:
- 9781509503872
- 1509503870
- 9781509503896
- 1509503897
- OCLC:
- 932463321
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