Pеrеstroikа: Nеw Thinking for Our Country аnd thе World
Publisher: Hаrpеrcollins
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1987-11
List price: $19.95
It has been almost twenty years since this book was written and shortly after that, the Soviet Union fell apart. That political entity known as the Soviet Block suddenly was no more, going out more with a soft pop than anything approaching a bang. There are those who believe that the collapse of the Soviet Union was inevitable, they cite technological advancement and the superiority of the capitalist system as the root causes. All that is true, but as we saw when several of the hard-line communists tried to stage a coup, the collapse of the Soviet Union could have been very bloody. For ...