The Gorbachev Regime: Consolidation to Reform

ISBN-13: 9780202362694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 201 str.

Peter Juviler; Hiroshi Kimura

Opis

In the early days of Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union, an international group of U.S. and Japanese authorities probed the issues and forces that shaped a mammoth struggle within the Soviet Union. Th is book examines Gorbachev's reforms-the extent of their dramatic changes and the sobering evidence of their limits. Th e contributors' assessments range from wonder at the new atmosphere and expressive possibilities, to recognition of the reforms' reversibility, increasing diffi culty, and the long road ahead. Th is is a fascinating contemporary review of factors that led to the demise of the Soviet Union only a few years later.

Spis treści

1: Gorbachev’s Agenda: Domestic Reforms and Foreign Policy Reassessments; 2: Prospects for Perestroika: New Goals, Old Interests; 3: Ideology and Reform; 4: The Reform Movement: Power, Ideology, and Intellectuals; 5: Gorbachev’s Economic Reforms; 6: Gorbachev’s Foreign Policy and the “New Political Thinking” in the Soviet Union; 7: Gorbachev, The New Thinking of Soviet Foreign-Security Policy and the Military: Recent Trends and Implications; 8: Gorbachev’s “New Thinking” and the Asian-Pacific Region

O autorze

Hiroshi Kimura