xi, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

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To my readers -- Preface: Perestroika and the future -- Trying to bury me -- I. After Perestroika -- The 1990s : Defending Perestroika -- My last day in the Kremlin -- A new beginning, without presidential immunity -- Shock therapy -- The search for a scapegoat, threats -- The Gorbachev Foundation :...

II. Whither Russia? -- Putin : the beginning -- The new president : hopes, problems, fears -- What is Glasnost? -- The heavy burden of the presidency -- My social-democratic choice -- Russia needs social democracy -- Issues and more issues -- The zero years of the 2000s? -- The Yukos affair -- A par...

III. Today's uneasy world -- The relevance of New Thinking -- Challenges of globalization -- The challenge of security -- Ban the bomb! -- Consequences of NATO expansion -- The world after 9/11 -- Poverty is a political problem -- Responding to the environmental challenge -- The water crisis -- The...