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Book Synopsis Gorbachev and Perestroika by : Martin McCauley
Download or read book Gorbachev and Perestroika written by Martin McCauley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a narrative and analysis of the first four years of the Gorbachev phenomenon. All areas of great significance are covered. Special attention is paid to the economy, nationality affairs and foreign affairs. Gorbachev's standing abroad is much higher than at home. Seen by many abroad as a charismatic figure, he has still to convince the average worker and farmer that perestroika is good for them. The first four years present a fascinating tableau of Soviet change and resistance to change. This book provides the reader with the insights to understand the processes now under way in the largest country in the world. For those who wish to be informed about the Soviet Union and aim to follow events there, it will be required reading.
Book Synopsis My Six Years with Gorbachev by : Anatoly Chernyaev
Download or read book My Six Years with Gorbachev written by Anatoly Chernyaev and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And as Gorbachev's confidant on many domestic issues as well, Chernyaev offers rare insights into the struggle over glasnost, the growth of separatism, and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. While admiring of perestroika's founder, Chernyaev is frank in faulting Gorbachev for his hesitancy in economic reforms, for his delay in decentralizing Union-republic ties, and above all for his misplaced faith in the reformability of the Communist Party.".
Book Synopsis Speeches and Writings by : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
Download or read book Speeches and Writings written by Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev and published by Oxford ; New York : Pergamon. This book was released on 1986 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gorbachev's First Three Years by : Malcolm Mackintosh
Download or read book Gorbachev's First Three Years written by Malcolm Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev by : Arthur Gunlicks
Download or read book The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev written by Arthur Gunlicks and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-11-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with an overview of the institutions with which Gorbachev will have to contend and then present a series of essays on which consider the prospects for economic reform, challenges and changes in social policy and the arts, and initiatives in foreign policy. The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev concludes with a discussion of the impact of the 27th Party Congress.
Book Synopsis Gorbachev's First Five Years in the Soviet Leadership: The Clash of Personalities and the Remaking of Institutions by :
Download or read book Gorbachev's First Five Years in the Soviet Leadership: The Clash of Personalities and the Remaking of Institutions written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a detailed overview of the multiple dilemmas that emerged during Gorbachev's first five years in power under the impact of his effort to change the Soviet Union. The study seeks to show how the interwoven conflicts in different arenas of Soviet life have affected each other. The discussion reviews from five different aspects the struggle among the Soviet leaders from the spring of 1985 through the spring of 1990. Because the economic dimension is probably the decisive one, the report first traces how and why the Soviet leaders arrived at their present economic predicament. The study then reviews the purely political aspects of the leadership struggle as it evolved, and the implications of Gorbachev's emerging political reforms for that struggle. It next discusses the main features of the nationality crisis around the country's periphery as they affected Gorbachevs in the center. The study then considers the evolution of Gorbachev's relation with the military and their institutional consequences, and finally it weighs the implications of the political role of the KGB for the Gorbachev leadership. From these considerations, the report seeks to draw some overall conclusions about what is happening to Soviet institutions.
Book Synopsis Mikhail Gorbachev by : Charles River
Download or read book Mikhail Gorbachev written by Charles River and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War seemingly moved into one of its most dangerous phases after Brezhnev's death as both sides deployed nuclear weapons within alarming proximity in Europe. A NATO exercise, "Operation Able Archer," almost led to a Soviet miscalculation, and when the Soviets shot down a South Korean airliner in September 1983, claiming it had strayed into Soviet airspace, the Cold War became very tense indeed. After going through three elderly leaders in three years, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen as the new General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the relatively youg age of 54 in March 1985. Gorbachev hoped to build the Soviet economy to relieve the persistent shortages of consumer goods it faced, which were caused by enormous military spending of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev tried to introduce some economic reforms, but they were blocked by communist hardliners. Gorbachev then came to the belief that the Soviet economy could not improved without political reform as well. Limited political reforms, such as broadcasting uncensored debates in which politicians openly questioned government policy, backfired when they energized eastern European opposition movements which began to overthrow their communist governments in 1989. Gorbachev was unwilling to reoccupy these eastern European nations and use the Soviet army to put down these revolts. Inspired by the revolts in Eastern Europe, the small Soviet Baltic republics, which had long chafed under Russian rule, also began to clamor for independence from the Soviet Union. In 1990, Gorbachev allowed non-Communist party politicians to run for office throughout the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party lost to independence candidates in six Soviet republics, including the three Baltic republics. The Baltic republics then declared independence from the Soviet Union. In comparison with other Soviet leaders, Gorbachev was leader of the USSR for a relatively short period, but the changes that took place under his leadership were monumental, including some that were intended and others that were unforeseen. Gorbachev oversaw the end of the Cold War and the peaceful transition away from communism in Central and Eastern Europe, and he ended the war in Afghanistan and many other proxy conflicts in the developing world. Gorbachev improved relations with the West and developed enough trust with President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush to decommission thousands of nuclear weapons. He also liberalized the political environment within the Soviet Union itself, increased accountability, and brought in a certain degree of democracy. Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for these efforts in 1990, but his regime also left a legacy of turbulence and destruction in its wake. As a result of his policies, many Soviet people rose up against the status quo, demanding national self-determination and reviving old grievances. Gorbachev could not prevent the USSR from disbanding at the end of 1991, leaving much of the country's economy in ruins and nationalist and ethnic conflicts that are still unresolved today. Gorbachev was more popular abroad than he was at home, and in many respects, historians are still debating the costs and benefits of the last Soviet General Secretary's approach.
Book Synopsis The Collapse of the Soviet Union by : Charles River Editors
Download or read book The Collapse of the Soviet Union written by Charles River Editors and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Cold War moved into one of its most dangerous phases after Brezhnev's death as both sides deployed nuclear weapons within alarming proximity in Europe. A NATO exercise, "Operation Able Archer," almost led to a Soviet miscalculation, and when the Soviets shot down a South Korean airliner in September 1983, claiming it had strayed into Soviet airspace, the Cold War became very tense indeed. After going through three elderly leaders in three years, Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen as the new General Secretary at the relatively youg age of 54 in March 1985. Gorbachev hoped to build the Soviet economy to relieve the persistent shortages of consumer goods it faced, which were caused by enormous military spending of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev tried to introduce some economic reforms, but they were blocked by communist hardliners. Gorbachev then came to the belief that the Soviet economy could not improved without political reform as well. Limited political reforms, such as broadcasting uncensored debates in which politicians openly questioned government policy, backfired when they energized eastern European opposition movements which began to overthrow their communist governments in 1989. Gorbachev was unwilling to reoccupy these eastern European nations and use the Soviet army to put down these revolts. Inspired by the revolts in Eastern Europe, the small Soviet Baltic republics, which had long chafed under Russian rule, also began to clamor for independence from the Soviet Union. In 1990, Gorbachev allowed non-Communist party politicians to run for office throughout the Soviet Union, and the Communist Party lost to independence candidates in six Soviet republics, including the three Baltic republics. The Baltic republics then declared independence from the Soviet Union. In comparison with other Soviet leaders, Gorbachev was leader of the USSR for a relatively short period, but the changes that took place under his leadership were monumental, including some that were intended and others that were unforeseen. Gorbachev oversaw the end of the Cold War and the peaceful transition away from communism in Central and Eastern Europe, and he ended the war in Afghanistan and many other proxy conflicts in the developing world. Gorbachev improved relations with the West and developed enough trust with President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush to decommission thousands of nuclear weapons. He also liberalized the political environment within the Soviet Union itself, increased accountability, and brought in a certain degree of democracy. Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for these efforts in 1990, but his regime also left a legacy of turbulence and destruction in its wake. As a result of his policies, many Soviet people rose up against the status quo, demanding national self-determination and reviving old grievances. Gorbachev could not prevent the USSR from disbanding at the end of 1991, leaving much of the country's economy in ruins and nationalist and ethnic conflicts that are still unresolved today. Gorbachev was more popular abroad than he was at home, and in many respects, historians are still debating the costs and benefits of the last Soviet General Secretary's approach. The Collapse of the Soviet Union: The History of the USSR Under Mikhail Gorbachev examines the final years of their empire, and how it all came crashing down in a relatively short period of time. Along with pictures of important people and places, you will learn about the collapse of the Soviet Union like never before.
Book Synopsis Five Years That Shook The World by : Harley D. Balzer
Download or read book Five Years That Shook The World written by Harley D. Balzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a balanced analysis of perestroika with an eye to the ongoing political, social and cultural changes. It is based on papers prepared for a conference on "The First Five Years of Perestroika: What Have We Learned? What Has Gorbachev Learned?" held at Georgetown University.
Book Synopsis Memoirs by : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
Download or read book Memoirs written by Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these long-awaited memoirs, Mikhail Gorbachev looks back on a lifetime that mirrors the fate of the Russian people. From the persecution of his family under Stalin to his first political steps, to his extraordinary rise within the Communist Party, Gorbachev recounts the events that led to his own disillusionment, without which the eventual implosion of communism would not have taken place. He casts an equally sharp eye on the policies of both past communist governments and present-day reformers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Gorbachev's Russia And American Foreign Policy by : Seweryn Bialer
Download or read book Gorbachev's Russia And American Foreign Policy written by Seweryn Bialer and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1988-06-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gorbachev written by Martin McCauley and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first major study of Gorbachev to be written in the light of his own uniquely revealing (though self-serving) memoirs, with their startlingly intimate view of Kremlin life. Martin McCauley, a leading authority on the Soviet era, uses these and other recent materials with an acute critical intelligence to provide both an objective account of what happened - and why - during the momentous period of Soviet reform, failure and collapse, and also an authoritative assessment of Gorbachev himself. Born in 1931 to a peasant family - his mother, a devout Orthodox Christian who died in 1995, never learned to read or write - Gorbachev became one of the architects of the late twentieth-century world. Himself a communist, he moved gradually towards social democracy, and in so doing dismantled the dictatorship that had held Russia in a vice for over 70 years. He effected this momentous change without civil war - in itself a breathtaking achievement. He was less successful elsewhere. He attempted to re-introduce elements of a market economy, with reform from above (perestroika) and reform from below (glasnost); but only accelerated Russia's economic decline. However, it was his failure to defuse the nationalist aspirations of Russia's subject peoples that eventually brought him down. Gorbachev's legacy to Russia has been decidedly mixed; but he nevertheless gave freedom to people who had not known it for three-quarters of a century. His wider reputation stands much higher, as befits the man who, more than anyone else, helped end the Cold War. But how much of what he achieved did he intend? How much of what he failed to achieve did he misjudge? These are questions which Martin McCauleyaddresses in this incisive study. It is a milestone in Soviet historiography; and - in its immediacy - as gripping as a Cold War thriller as it opens up the claustrophobic and intensely personal world of the Soviet leadership.
Book Synopsis Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power by : John Miller
Download or read book Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power written by John Miller and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1985 the Soviet Union was a recognised superpower and its political system, whilst looking clumsy to the outside world, also looked tenacious. Less than seven years later the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was banned, the notorious KGB broken up and the Soviet Union itself dissolved into fifteen independent states." "Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power is one of the first books to explore the final years of the Soviet system and Gorbachev's attempts to save it from collapse through internal reforms. The book evaluates Gorbachev's career as Party leader and President (up to December 1991) and assesses the place of perestroika in Russian history. It also analyses features of Gorbachev that puzzled the West, in particular his relationships to communism, revolution, democracy and gradualism; to the Soviet middle classes and intelligentsia; to the Communist Party; and to the national diversity of the former Soviet empire."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Five Years That Shook the World by : Taylor & Francis Group
Download or read book Five Years That Shook the World written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Mikhail Gorbachev by : Mark A Rumley
Download or read book History of Mikhail Gorbachev written by Mark A Rumley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final leader of the Soviet Union was Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, a politician from Russia and the Soviet Union who lived from 2 March 1931 to 30 August 2022. He presided over the Supreme Soviet's Presidium from 1988 to 1989, the Supreme Soviet itself from 1989 to 1990, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's General Secretary from 1985 to 1991, and finally the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1990 until its breakup in 1991. Gorbachev originally supported Marxism-Leninism, but by the early 1990s, he began to support social democracy. Gorbachev was born in an impoverished peasant family of Russian and Ukrainian descent in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai. Before joining the Communist Party, which at the time ruled the Soviet Union as a one-party state in accordance with the prevailing interpretation of Marxist-Leninist doctrine, Joseph Stalin worked as a combine harvester operator in his youth on a collective farm while living under Joseph Stalin's rule. He was a student at Moscow State University when he married Raisa Titarenko in 1953 and graduated from law school in 1955. He relocated to Stavropol and began working for the Komsomol youth group. After Stalin's death, he firmly supported Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization efforts. 1970 saw his appointment as the Stavropol Regional Committee's First Party Secretary, where he supervised the building of the Great Stavropol Canal. He moved back to Moscow in 1978 to take up the position of Secretary of the party's Central Committee. In 1979, he joined the Politburo, which governs the party. Following the short administrations of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko and three years after the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the Politburo chose Gorbachev to serve as General Secretary and de facto leader in 1985. Gorbachev was dedicated to maintaining the Soviet Union and its socialist goals, but he also saw the need for considerable change, notably in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. He left the Soviet-Afghan War and began holding meetings with Ronald Reagan to reduce nuclear weapons and put an end to the Cold War. Mark A. Milley a U.S journalist discusses the full account of Mikhail Gorbachev in his book. All his achievements, position and honors are recorded in this book
Book Synopsis The Man who Changed the World by : Gail Sheehy
Download or read book The Man who Changed the World written by Gail Sheehy and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human story of an inner struggle, a struggle that is the culmination of the series of lives Gorbachev has led throughout his career. Presents the first full-scale portrait of this unique figure.
Book Synopsis The Gorbachev Factor by : Archie Brown
Download or read book The Gorbachev Factor written by Archie Brown and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archie Brown delivers the definitive account of the political career of Mikhail Gorbachev - the most important figure in world politics in the latter half of the 20th century. Packed with fascinating insight, it is a major study of Gorbachev's rise to the top, his political style and evolving beliefs, his influences, the political context in which he operated, and the dramatic role he played both in world politics and in the evolution of his own country from one-partydictatorship to hitherto-unknown freedom of speech and political pluralism.
