02695nam 2200469 450 991046287750332120200520144314.00-231-52927-9(CKB)2670000000345353(EBL)949037(OCoLC)818858146(MiAaPQ)EBC949037(Au-PeEL)EBL949037(CaONFJC)MIL684713(EXLCZ)99267000000034535320190118d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConversations with Gorbachev on Perestroika, the Prague spring, and the crossroads of socialism /Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár ; translated by George ShriverNew York :Columbia University Press,[2002]©20021 online resource (255 p.)Includes index.0-231-11865-1 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 World1. 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; IndexMikhail 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 friElectronic books.947.0854092Gorbachev Mikhail926073Mlynář ZdeněkShriver George H. MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462877503321Conversations with Gorbachev2079178UNINA