The new Russia
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever 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...
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Cambridge, Malden, MA
Polity
2016
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| Ausgabe: | English edition |
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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
> Political and social views
> Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1952-
> Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich 1931-
> Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za
> Ex-presidents
> Presidents
> Perestroĭka
> History
> Social change
> Political culture
> Russia (Federation)
> Innenpolitik
> Außenpolitik
> Postkommunismus
> Perestroika
> Autoritarismus
> Geschichte
> Autobiographisch
> Autobiographic
> Politics and government
> Soviet Union
> Russland
> Politik
> Geschichte 1991-2016
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| Zusammenfassung: | After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever 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 in order to further his own personal power, Putin has corrupted the achievements of perestroika and created a system which offers no future for Russia. Faced with this, Gorbachev advocates a radical reform of politics and 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. 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 20th century. Mikhail Gorbachevwas the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Part from 1985 to 1991. Since then, he has maintained an active role in world affairs through the Gorbachev Foundation, a non-profit think tank which promotes democracy and humanitarian initiatives globally. To my readers -- Preface: Perestroika and the future -- Trying to bury me -- I. After Perestroika -- The 1990s : Defending Perestroika -- My last day in the Kremlin -- A new beginning, without presidential immunity -- Shock therapy -- The search for a scapegoat, threats -- The Gorbachev Foundation : its first reports -- December 1991 : politics and morality -- Salvation in work -- Attempts to "destabilize" me -- The "Trial of the CPSU" -- First results of shock therapy -- A year after the coup -- My stance -- The slide towards social catastrophe -- On the brink of crisis -- Fateful decisions, fateful days -- A state of emergency is not the way to stability -- Defects of the new Constitution -- 1994 gets off to a bad start -- Economists advise but the government is not listening -- Nikita Khrushchev : lessons in courage and lessons from mistakes -- The Union could have been saved -- The economy : what now? -- Meetings in the regions -- Chechnya : a war that could have been avoided -- 1995 : 10 years of Perestroika -- The intelligentsia -- Government and society -- The need for an alternative -- Breaking through the conspiracy of silence -- Letters relating to the 1996 presidential election campaign -- Discrediting elections -- The final years of the millennium -- The Gorbachev Foundation's "First Five-Year Plan" -- The elections fail to bring stability -- The storm breaks in 1998 -- How to come out of the crisis? -- Letters of support -- Raisa Gorbacheva -- |
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| Beschreibung: | English edition: "Reprinted 2016 (twice)" (Impressum, Nachdruck 2016) Mit Register First published in Russian as После Кремля (Posle Kremlya/Posle Kremlja), Moskva : Vesʹ Mir, 2014 |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 464 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781509503872 978-1-5095-0387-2 |