Conversations with Gorbachev - by Mikhail Gorbachev & Zdenek Mlynar (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Readers are invited to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation between one of the towering figures of the 20th century and his closest friend as they chat about the momentous events they lived through and helped orchestrate.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape-record them. 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 far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have ever seen before.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A significant historical document...--Journal of Democracy<br><br>An extraordinary transcription (and translation) of three blunt and probing conversations during the early 1990s between two old friends.--Booklist<br><br>Gorbachev adds enough beyond what he has already written to offer valuable insight to his intellectual evolution, down to and including his conception of socialism.--Foreign Affairs<br><br>A timely and important book... An unusually candid and revealing dialogue between Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar.--Robert D. English "The Nation "<br><br>This books reminds us of [Gorbachev's] accidental greatness and his greatness of character.... It reveals an argumentative, insightful and tenacious political frienship which did not end in betrayal.--John Lloyd "Times Literary Supplement "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Mikhail Gorbachev, secretary general of the Soviet Union, 1985-1991, now heads the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow and lectures widely around the world. His most recent book is <i>Gorbachev: On My Country and the World</i>. <p/>The late Zdenek Mlynar (1931-1997) was a leader of the Prague Spring of 1968 and a prominent member of the Czech dissident movement. His son, Vladimir, is the current minister without portfolio of the Czech Republic.
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