Conversations with Gorbachev
Subtitle: on perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the crossroads of socialism
By: Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar ; translated by George Shriver.
Contributors: Mlynář, Zdeněk.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931- -- Interviews; Mlynář, Zdeněk -- Interviews; Perestroĭka; Socialism; Czechoslovakia -- History -- Intervention, 1968
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, from the time their paths first crossed 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 and world politics.".

"In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. This volume is the product of that "thinking out loud." A historical document in its own right, the book is a record of two friends trying to explain to one another their views on the problems and events that determined their destinies.

From reminiscences of their starry-eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to "save socialism" to contemplation of the end of the Cold War, here is a more revealing picture of Gorbachev than we have seen before."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.