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Gorbachev's Perestroika: Can the Soviet System Be Reformed?

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Author(s): Astrid von Borcke
Series: Berichte des Bundesinstituts für ostwissenschaffliche und internationale Studien; 1/1988
Publisher: Bundesinstitut für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien
Year: 1988

Language: English
Pages: 51
City: Köln
Tags: Sowjetunion, KPdSU, Michail Gorbachev

Kurzfassung I
PERESTROIKA: ITS PURPOSES AND PUZZLES 1
GORBACHEV'S DIAGNOSIS: THE SYSTEM IN (PRE-)
CRISIS . . . . . 3
THE CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-POSITION 4
PERESTROIKA AND BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS 6
1. The Perceptions and Interests of the Key
Apparatuses 6
2. The KGB 6
3. The Military 7
4. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs 8
5. The Party Apparatus 9
GLASNOST' AND THE RISE OF PUBLIC OPINION 11
THE CULTURAL THAW AND THE "REMORALIZATION"
OF SOCIETY 14
REFORM OF THE PLANNED ECONOMY: GOOD-BYE TO
THE COMMAND SYSTEM? 17
PERESTROIKA TURNS POLITICAL 21
THE OUTLOOK 23
Summary 33