On my country and the world /Mikhail Gorbachev ; foreword to the Twentieth anniversary edition by William Taubman ; translated from Russian by George Shriver.

Gorbachev, Mikhail,

On my country and the world /Mikhail Gorbachev ; foreword to the Twentieth anniversary edition by William Taubman ; translated from Russian by George Shriver. - Twentieth anniversary edition. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part One. The October Revolution : Its sense and significance -- Part Two. The Union could have been preserved -- Part Three. The new thinking : Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

"Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, Gorbachev on the Cold War, and Gorbachev on key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin. This anniversary edition features a new foreword by William Taubman, award-winning biographer of Khrushchev and Gorbachev"--



9780231551069

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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022 --Political and social views.


World politics--1989-


Electronic Books.

DK49 / .O569 2019