LEADER 02695nam 2200469 450 001 9910462877503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-52927-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000345353 035 $a(EBL)949037 035 $a(OCoLC)818858146 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC949037 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL949037 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL684713 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000345353 100 $a20190118d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConversations with Gorbachev $eon Perestroika, the Prague spring, and the crossroads of socialism /$fMikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlyna?r ; translated by George Shriver 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2002] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-11865-1 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a1. 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 330 $aMikhail 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 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a947.0854092 700 $aGorbachev$b Mikhail$0926073 702 $aMlyna?r?$b Zdene?k 702 $aShriver$b George H. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462877503321 996 $aConversations with Gorbachev$92079178 997 $aUNINA