Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism

by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar

Book Overview

Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231118643
• ISBN13: 9780231118644
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher