Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism - Paperback

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Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism - Paperback

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism - Paperback

by Mikhail Gorbachev , Zdenek Mlynar
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Book Overview

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 friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies. From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to "save socialism" to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.
ISBN9780231118651
Author Mikhail Gorbachev , Zdenek Mlynar
PublisherColumbia University Press
GenreBiography, News & politics, and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2003
LanguageENG- English
Pages200
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism - Paperback

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism - Paperback

By Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar
About Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, secretary general of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, now heads the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow and lectures widely around the world. His most recent book is Gorbachev: On My Country and the World. The late Zdenek Mlynar (1931-1997) was a leader of the Prague Spring of 1968 and a prominent member of the Czech dissident movement. His son, Vladimir, is the current minister without portfolio of the Czech Republic.
About Zdenek Mlynar
Mikhail Gorbachev, secretary general of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, now heads the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow and lectures widely around the world. His most recent book is Gorbachev: On My Country and the World. The late Zdenek Mlynar (1931-1997) was a leader of the Prague Spring of 1968 and a prominent member of the Czech dissident movement. His son, Vladimir, is the current minister without portfolio of the Czech Republic.

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