Lowry, Montecue J.
Glasnost'

Deception, Desperation, Dialectics.

The Soviet «new thinking» reforms constitute the implementation of a plan from the mid-1960s when the Soviets recognized a serious problem with their socio-economic and political systems. A marked change from Soviet practices of the Stalin era, this plan required a new type of leader whose personality could sell the «new thinking» changes to the West. Gorbachev became the «front man» for this radical program, glasnost'. The expected results were a stronger Soviet Union from which the Soviets could consolidate their world position and propagate international, Marxist-Leninist socialism, and a one-world society in which there would be no opposition to their system. XXIV,263 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 103/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint