When Mikhail Gorbachev carne to power on March II, 1985, a certain image of the Soviet Union was about to disappear. Unlike his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko, who was the textbook incarnation of waning Brezhnevian conservatism, the new first secretary of the CPSU, remarkably young having just celebrated his 54th birthday, would attempt to salvage whatever could be saved of a Soviet regime that was losing momentum and at risk of imploding, even though this would involve questioning the dogma of the state since the days of Stalin.


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    Title :

    East meets West


    Additional title:

    Springer Praxis Books (formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2013-03-01


    Size :

    19 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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