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Conversations with Gorbachev : on Perestroika, the Prague spring, and the crossroads of socialism / Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár ; translated by George Shriver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorbachiov, Mijail Sergueevich, 1931-2022, author.
- Mlynář, Zdeněk, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gorbachiov, Mijail Sergueevich, 1931-2022.
- Gorbachiov, Mijail Sergueevich.
- Gorbachiov, Mijail Sergueevich, 1931-2022--Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- 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 fri
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Translator's Note; Author's Preface; CONVERSATION ONE: The Criss-Crossing of our Paths; 1. Student Communists; 2. New Hopes and New Disappointments; 3. Twenty Years, Divergent Paths; CONVERSATION TWO: How We Sought to Reinvigorate Socialism; 1 .The Prague Spring and its Defeat; 2. More Democracy, More Socialism; 3. Freedom of Choice Either Exists or It Doesn't; 4. An Airplane Took Off, Not Knowing Where It Would Land; 5. What to Do With the Party ?; 6. Can the Use of Force ""Save Socialism""?; CONVERSATION THREE: There's Only One World
- 1. Breaking Out of the Dead End of the Cold War2. Socialism is Alive as a World Process; 3. At a Crossroads of Civilization; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS The Conscience of the Reformer; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-52927-9
- OCLC:
- 818858146
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