
The Gorbachev Regime
Consolidation to Reform
Hiroshi Kimura(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2017
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-1-138-53598-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the early days of Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet Union, an international group of U.S. and Japanese authorities probed the issues and forces that shaped a mammoth struggle within the Soviet Union. This book examines Gorbachev's reforms--the extent of their dramatic changes and the sobering evidence of their limits. The contributors' assessments range from wonder at the new atmosphere and expressive possibilities, to recognition of the reforms' reversibility, increasing difficulty, and the long road ahead. This is a fascinating contemporary review of factors that led to the demise of the Soviet Union only a few years later."Perestroika," the transformation of Soviet society and economic relations, epitomized Gorbachev's remedy for the ailing Soviet economy, which developed into a redefinition of Soviet socialism. Gorbachev emphasized that the success of reform depended not only on the technology and money, but also to succeed the reforms must overcome Stalin's legacy of bureaucratic centralism and enlist the creative energies of the Soviet people.This volume explains why the strength and nature of the reform coalition and anti-reform opposition, the limits and prospects of reform, and the compatibility of decentralizing reforms within the centralized one-party Soviet system and the implications of reforms for Soviet relations with the rest of the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-53598-5 (9781138535985)
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Content
1: Gorbachev's Agenda: Domestic Reforms and Foreign Policy Reassessments; 2: Prospects for Perestroika: New Goals, Old Interests; 3: Ideology and Reform; 4: The Reform Movement: Power, Ideology, and Intellectuals; 5: Gorbachev's Economic Reforms; 6: Gorbachev's Foreign Policy and the "New Political Thinking" in the Soviet Union; 7: Gorbachev, The New Thinking of Soviet Foreign-Security Policy and the Military: Recent Trends and Implications; 8: Gorbachev's "New Thinking" and the Asian-Pacific Region