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...power. But historians should beware of politicians who publish their memoirs too soon. Gorbachev's fascinating narrative makes no pretense of offering a scrupulously detailed or unbiased account of the events last year that transformed the modern world. There are no revelations here about what went on behind closed Kremlin doors. These are the passionate jottings of a man who is willing to acknowledge his mistakes but remains unreconciled to present-day realities. Gorbachev continues to believe the old Soviet republics would be better off in a new union; history, it appears, cheated him of this goal...
...overhaul the Communist Party and introduce a more measured program of market reforms "impossible." The putsch certainly accelerated the breakup of the Soviet state, but it is debatable whether Gorbachev would have achieved either aim had the hard-liners not made their move. By the summer of 1991, Kremlin power was already ebbing away to republican leaders like Russia's Boris Yeltsin; the party was clearly headed for a schism. It is also doubtful, as Gorbachev suggests, that he might have succeeded in his second attempt to form a new, looser union in the months after the putsch...
...Square on May Day, the occasion formerly dedicated to the workers of the world. Fortune 500 corporations have received a price list which sets $1 million as the space rate for plastering the whole square with product slogans and billboards, or $500,000 for just the red brick Kremlin wall. "This will be the first official celebration of the new Russia," the ITAR-TASS news agency said in its announcement of the ad sale. "Have your day but bring dollars...
...underdeveloped states of the south were not ready to deal with such newfangled concepts as political pluralism or free-market economics. The vast majority of the population lives a rural life, cut off from urban political developments. Robbed of their natural resources and even their cultural identity by the Kremlin, the Central Asians were forced to take charge of their destiny overnight. Their struggle to define the future is even more basic than in the old Soviet European republics...
...nearly half a century, the U.S. had two paramount tasks: containing the spread of communism and preventing a nuclear war. Sometimes American Presidents conducted military operations against Soviet surrogates and allies, notably in Korea and Vietnam; sometimes they engaged in diplomacy with their Kremlin counterparts, particularly on arms control. These were the hard and soft dimensions of the same global mission. Maintaining the right balance between the two required a degree of rational public discourse that is almost ) always missing in U.S. election campaigns, which tend to be nasty, brutish and long. When the defining issue in the national debate...