This book contains Mikhail Gorbachev's main ideas on Perestroika, a program of political, economic, and social reform launched to improve the Soviet system in the mid-1980s. Gorbachev explains the background to the need for total renewal, the concept of glasnost (openness), economic restructuring, democratization, and the new direction of Soviet foreign policy. This book provides direct insight…
Contents: 1. Statement by the general secretary of the CPSU central committee 2. To Mr. Hitosh Motoshma, mayor of Nagasaki, and Mr. Takeshi Araki 3. To the disarmament conference 4. From the political report of the CPSU central committee to the 27th party congresh 5. Replay to the joint message of the leaders of Argentina, India, Mexico, Tanzania, Sweden and Greece, etc.