Gorbachev : The Man and the System

ISBN-13: 9781412807173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 480 str.

Ilya Zemtsov; John Farrar

Opis

Gorbachev: The Man and the System portrays Gorbachev's rise to power and his tenure in offi ce against the background of a period of critical change and development in the Soviet system. The research is primarily based on Soviet materials, supplemented and critically compared with a wide range of Western press and academic studies. Both Zemtsov and Farrar bring to the analysis their own experiences, acquired under different circumstances.

Spis treści

1: A New Leadership for Old Problems and Future Challenges; I: Internal Politics; Selected Chronology of Significant Internal Developments and Events March 1985 through June 1987; 2: New Wine in Old (?) Bottles: Leadership and Personnel Changes; 3: To Build a Better Mousetrap: The Economy; 4: Images versus Reality: The Society and the Style; 5: Is the Media the Message? Glasnost and the Arts; II: Foreign Policies; 6: Happy Days Can Be Here Again: Relations with the United States and the Industrialized West; Selected East-West Chronology; 7: Scorpions in a Bottle: Arms Control Policy (Part One); 8: Arms Control Policy (Part Two) Reykjavik and Beyond: The Pendulum Swings; Selected Arms Control Chronology; 9: The Burdens and Benefits of Empire: Relations with Eastern Europe; Selected Soviet-Eastern European Chronology; 10: The “Mongol Hordes”: Relations with the People’s Republic of China; Selected Sino-Soviet Chronology; 11: Winning the Hearts and Minds: Relations with the Third World; Selected Soviet-Third World Chronology, from March 1985 *; III: Military Policies; 12: The Metal Eaters: The Armed Forces and Soviet Military Doctrine; IV: Conclusions; 13: The Emperor’s New Clothes: What the Record Reveals; 14: The Past Is but Prologue: Projections for the Future

O autorze

John Farrar