Author: GORBACHEV, MIKHAIL,
Title: Perestroika.
Description: New thinking for our country and the world. New York, etc., Harper & Row Publishers, (1987). First edition. 24x16 cm. Cloth, dustwrapper. 254 pp. - Mikhail Gorbachev, becoming General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in march 1985, set in a new policy in the Soviet Union, which he called 'perestroika' or 'restructuring' practice and theory in both domestic and foreign policies; but instead of reforming the Soviet Union into a more open and less oppressive socialist state, his initiative not only led to an end of the Cold War, but also unleashed forces in the state itself, which Gorbachev didn't wish nor could control. In fact, 'perestroika' marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. ISBN 0-06-039085-9. Porto/Postage: € 4,25 Brievenbuspakje NL (Domestic)

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