Conversations with Gorbachev : on Perestroika, the Prague spring, and the crossroads of socialism / / Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár ; translated by George Shriver
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| Autore: |
Gorbachev Mikhail
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| Titolo: |
Conversations with Gorbachev : on Perestroika, the Prague spring, and the crossroads of socialism / / Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár ; translated by George Shriver
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2002] |
| ©2002 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 947.0854092 |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MlynářZdeněk |
| ShriverGeorge H. | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Conversations with Gorbachev |
| ISBN: | 0-231-52927-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462877503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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