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Author Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-2022

Title Perestroika : new thinking for our country and the world / Mikhail Gorbachev.

Publication Info. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Harper & Row, [1987]
©1987

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 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  947.085 GOR    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description pages cm
Contents pt. 1. Perestroika -- ch.1. Perestroika: origins, essence, revolutionary character -- Perestroika -- an urgent necessity -- Turning to Lenin, an ideological source of perestroika -- A carefully prepared program, rather than a pompous declaration -- More socialism and more democracy -- Lessons of history -- What inspired us to launch perestroika -- Perestroika is a revolution -- A "revolution from above"? The party and perestroika -- ch.2. Perestroika gets under way: the first conclusions -- I. Society is put in motion -- How it all began -- Perestroika gains momentum -- We have no ready-made formulas -- More light to Glasnost! -- Perestroika and the intelligentsia -- II. New economic and social policy in action -- Economic reform: the June 1987 plenary meeting of the CPSU Central Committee -- On to full cost accounting! -- A new concept of centralism -- Goal: World technological standards -- Living tissue of perestroika -- The social policy of restructuring -- III. Along the road of democratization -- Our main reserve -- Observance of law -- an indispensable element in democratization -- Perestroika and the Soviets -- The new role of trade unions -- Young people and perestroika -- Women and the family -- The Union of Socialist Nations -- a unique formation -- Prestige and trust -- IV. The West and restructuring -- pt. 2. New thinking and the world -- ch.3. How we see the world of today -- Where we are -- New political thinking -- Our road to a new outlook -- The "hand of Moscow" -- International implications of new thinking -- For honest and open foreign policy -- ch.4. Restructuring in the USSR and the socialist world -- On real socialism -- Toward new relations -- ch.5. The Third World in the international community -- Regional conflicts -- Nations have the right to choose their own way of development -- The Asia-Pacific knot -- On nuclear disarmament in Asia -- Soviet-Indian relations -- At a difficult watershed -- Latin America: a time of major change -- Cooperation, not confrontation -- ch.6. Europe in Soviet foreign policy -- Heritage of history -- Europe is our common home -- Necessity: imperatives for Pan-European policy -- Europe's opportunities -- Two German states -- Europe and disarmament -- European cooperation -- First signs of the new thinking in Europe -- On Europe and the United States -- Europe's responsibility -- ch.7. Problems of disarmament and USSR-USA relations -- What do we expect from the United States of America? -- The US: "shining city atop a hill" -- The "enemy image" -- Who needs the arms race and why? -- More about realities: removing the ideological edge from interstate relations -- Alienation is evil -- On the road to Geneva -- Geneva -- After Geneva -- Moratorium -- The nuclear disarmament program -- The US since Geneva -- The lesson of Chernobyl -- Reykjavik -- After Reykjavik -- The Moscow forum and medium-range missiles -- Conclusion.
Note "A Cornelia & Michael Bessie book."
Subject World politics -- 1985-1995.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1975-
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-
ISBN 0060390859: $20.00
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