Gorbachev (eBook)

Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, and President of the Soviet Union, 1988-1991, currently heads the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow and lectures widely. He is also the author of Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations, The Search for a New Beginning: Developing a New Civilization, and The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons.George Shriver has translated and edited many books, including Nikolai Bukharin's How It All Began: The Prison Novel and Roy Medvedev's On Soviet Dissent, The October Revolution, Let History Judge, and Post-Soviet Russia (all published by Columbia).

1. The October Revolution, Its Meaning and Significance1. A Blunder of History, Accident or Necessity?2. Was Socialism Built in the Soviet Union?3. Let's Not Oversimplify! A Balance Sheet of the Soviet Years4. October and the World5. One More Balance Sheet: Something Worth Thinking About6. October and Perestroika7. Does Socialism Have Future?8. Summing Up2. The Union Could Have Been Preserved1. A Tragic Turn of Events2. Tbilisi.... Baku.... Vilinius3. Toward a New Union Treaty4. Referendum on the Union5. The Coup—A Stab in the Back—and the Intrigues of Yeltsin6. The Belovezh Accord: Dissolution of the USSR7. What Lies Ahead3. The New Thinking: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow1. The Very First Steps2. The Conception (1985-1991)3. Overcoming the Cold War4. The Transitional World Order5. The New Thinking in the Post Confrontational World6. The Challenge of Globalization7. The Challenge of Diversity8. The Challenge of Global Problems9. The Challenge of Power Politics10. The Challenge of Democracy11. The Challenge of Universal Human Values12. The Beginning of History?