Conversations with Gorbachev : on Perestroika, the Prague spring, and the crossroads of socialism.
Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prag...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Summary: | Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This book is the product of that?thinking out loud" process. It is an absorbing record of two fri. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780231529273 0231529279 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |