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History will remember Mikhail Gorbachev as the leader who brought openness (glasnost) and economic restructuring (perestroika) to the Soviet Union, ushering it toward the end of communism. In Rhode Island last week to speak at the Carnegie Abbey Club, Gorbachev, 75, sat down with TIME's Sally B. Donnelly to talk about his new book, To Understand Perestroika, Russia under Vladimir Putin and life after the 1999 death of his beloved wife Raisa...
...WRITE YOUR NEW BOOK ABOUT PERESTROIKA? We think the introduction of perestroika in the Soviet Union [in 1985] was one of the three most significant events in Soviet history--the others are the 1917 revolution and the victory in World War II. On the 20th anniversary, we thought it important to note it and explain it. And while there has been sharp debate in Russia about perestroika--many people have considered it a bad thing for the country--I think people are starting to change, and polls are showing people appreciate what it did for the country. Seventy-seven percent...
...Tuesday, and has already postponed his previously planned inauguration this coming Friday. But if Lukashenko is indeed feeling increasingly painted into a corner, perhaps he can take comfort from recent elections in nearby Ukraine, where at least one-third of the electorate retain strong support for the same post-Soviet Moscow-favored autocratic leader the voters rejected just 16 months...
...there very smart weapons which enabled us to win the Gulf War with very little cost to ourselves." Weinberger spoke those words four months before the U.S. launched the second Iraq war in March 2003. It's fair to give Weinberger credit for helping to drive the Soviet Union into history. But it's also fair to note that the current Iraq campaign might be going better if the Pentagon had shucked Weinberger's fascination with high-tech weaponry and instead invested more heavily in the troops and armor needed to seize ground - and hold it while a fledgling democracy...
...Weinberger had left the Pentagon two years earlier by the time that happened, followed two years later by the collapse of the Soviet Union itself. But since then, no Pentagon leader - or President, for that matter - has succeeded in weaning the nation's military-industrial complex from Weinberger's Cold War high. Despite the lack of a superpower rival, in fact, Pentagon spending now is higher than the Cold War average ($401 billion in today's dollars for the Cold War, compared to a $513 billion request for the proposed budget for next year...