| Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism Contributor(s): Gorbachev, Mikhail (Author), Mlynar, Zdenek (Author), Shriver, George (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231118643 ISBN-13: 9780231118644 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: Readers are invited to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation between one of the towering figures of the 20th century and his closest friend as they chat about the momentous events they lived through and helped orchestrate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001058228 |
| Lexile Measure: 1330 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.06" W x 9.32" (1.06 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to "save socialism" to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before. |