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Mikhail Gorbachev: "The main thing is to start"

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Mikhail Gorbachev: "The main thing is to start"
49.99 €

Gorbachev's brief but colorful era is buried under the stamp of the dashing 90s: the rulers who succeeded him are uncomfortable with this period of national history - it raises doubts and awakens thought. Gorbachev is labeled by some as "gravedigger of a great power" and by others as "great reformer," but one way or another he has already been categorized somehow and smells like the dust of a local history museum. In fact, the Brezhnev "socialism" that preceded him is now mythologized, and the generation born in the 1990s and later knows almost nothing about the compressed time of perestroika. Extracting new meanings from seemingly known facts, the author seeks to convey the very spirit of the political and moral revolution that Gorbachev's perestroika became (although it was hardly intended to be so). The author explains the mystery of Gorbachev, who took over the mighty USSR as if having put to sleep the vigilance of the Politburo that had elected him to office, by the fact that until about 1988 he himself would never have guessed the role that was assigned to him in Russian and world history. Was perestroika a failure? Today it seems so. But tomorrow the answer to the same question will depend on whether it was an accidental aberration in Russian history or another attempt to change the "rut.

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