Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War

Grachev, Andrei

ISBN 10: 0745643450 / ISBN 13: 9780745643458

Published by Polity Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gorbachev's Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745643450
• ISBN 13: 9780745643458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.

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Synopsis

Gorbachev’s Gamble offers a new and more convincing answer to this question by providing the missing link between the internal and external aspects of Gorbachev’s perestroika. Andrei Grachev shows that the radical transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev years was an integral part of an ambitious project of internal democratic reform and of the historic opening of Soviet society to the outside world. 

Grachev explains the motives and the intentions of the initiators of this project and describes their hopes and their illusions. He recounts the story of the internal debates and struggles in the Kremlin and behind-the-scene decisions that led to the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of the Warsaw Pact and eventually the demise of the Soviet Union itself. 

The book is based on exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union including Gorbachev, personal notes and diaries of their assistants and advisers and transcripts of the discussions inside the Politburo and Secretariat of the Central Committee. Together they constitute a multi-voice political confession of a whole generation of decision-makers of the Soviet Union that enables us better to understand the origin and the breathtaking trajectory of the events that led to the end of the Cold War and the unprecedented transformation of world politics in the closing decades of the 20th century.

About the Author

Andrei Grachev was former political adviser and last official spokesman of Mikhail Gorbachev.