Russia’s Way of Being in the World, from Yesterday to Tomorrow

... was the strangest thing: originally the Gorbachev project was a reformed, more open socialism, and remained so even until 1991 when its popularity was confirmed at the... ... historical split between Communists and Social Democrats was being healed and within the USSR and in every nation of the so-called “Eastern bloc,” suppressed currents of... ... matryoshka doll was another: the notion that the search for negotiations and pacts with the USA was strategically more important than, and on a qualitatively superior plane to...