
Mikhail Gorbachev's visions of a reformulated Soviet Union encompassing glasnost, perestroika and The New Thinking after the abrupt departure of the ailing Konstantin Chernenko revolutionized Soviet foreign policy and the CPSU as well. Though mentored by the infamous Yuri Andropov, Gorbachev was not a product of the Great Patriotic War but rather a new-age Russian technocrat who realized that the ...
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (November 12, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3843374465
ISBN-13: 978-3843374460
Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.2 x 8.7 inches
Amazon Rank: 12651765
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This book clearly looks into the thinking and the reforms of one of Russia's greatest leaders. The content is pertinent to the understading of the man behind the Iron Curtain. It allows the reader to see what decisions Gorbachev made and why he made ...
of the CPSU was coming to a close. He could not anticipate that he would unleash a dynamic torrent of unintended consequences that would cause the implosion of the entire Soviet Union and its satellite system transforming the Russian experiment in socialism to a new phase of experimental engagement with western-style democracy. Students of the political dynamics of the Russian empire will observe the evolutionary nature of the transition that the visionary Gorbachev precipitated. Historians and comparative political scientists will understand the gravity and important implications that this dramatic twist in Russian political history has wrought and the continued dramatic changes in store for the Medvedev-Putin siloviki administration in the current nationalized Russian state.