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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The interview was a public scandal in Russia, but it was a sign of the times in the perestroika period. The country’s tentative steps toward greater openness were tantalizing, but they knew they could be punished at any moment.
#2 The Soviet Union held its first real election in March 1989, and the Communist Party only won 85 percent of the seats in the Congress of People’s Deputies. In Poland, the Communist regime was overthrown completely and the rest of the Warsaw Pact nations quickly followed Poland’s example.
#3 The Soviet experience, and the fear it created, continues to shape Putin and the rest’s behavior. It is difficult to describe life in a Communist state to those who never lived in one.
#4 I often spoke about politics with people above me in the field, and I was always surprised by how much they overestimated the stability of Communism in Europe and the USSR. They seemed completely oblivious to the broadly destabilizing impact of Yeltsin’s battle of Russia versus the USSR.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	28 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669368892
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The interview was a public scandal in Russia, but it was a sign of the times in the perestroika period. The country’s tentative steps toward greater openness were tantalizing, but they knew they could be punished at any moment.

#2

The Soviet Union held its first real election in March 1989, and the Communist Party only won 85 percent of the seats in the Congress of People’s Deputies. In Poland, the Communist regime was overthrown completely and the rest of the Warsaw Pact nations quickly followed Poland’s example.

#3

The Soviet experience, and the fear it created, continues to shape Putin and the rest’s behavior. It is difficult to describe life in a Communist state to those who never lived in one.

#4

I often spoke about politics with people above me in the field, and I was always surprised by how much they overestimated the stability of Communism in Europe and the USSR. They seemed completely oblivious to the broadly destabilizing impact of Yeltsin’s battle of Russia versus the USSR.

#5

The Baku pogrom, which took place in January 1990, was the only meeting I had with Gorbachev. I wanted to discuss the 120 people who had been murdered and the tens of thousands who had been displaced, but he ignored this line of discussion and kept asking me who should become the new first secretary of the Communist Party in Azerbaijan.

#6

I was lucky that my disloyalty to the chess goddess Caissa rarely cost me as dearly at the chessboard as it might have. I won the world championship in 1991, representing democracy and rebellion.

#7

The fall of the Soviet Union was a long time in the making. After the coup failed, Gorbachev was left with only half of his authority, and the West spent billions of dollars trying to keep the USSR alive.

#8

The popular Russian victimhood myth, which states that Russia was humiliated by the West after the USSR collapsed, is completely false. In reality, many Western leaders became trapped by the idea that Russia was too big to lose and had to be supported at all costs.

#9

The roots of Russia’s descent into totalitarianism can be traced to the West doing too much to respect the legacy of the USSR as a great power. We were allowed to live, speak, and think for ourselves, but we failed to uproot the KGB system quickly enough.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of the Cold War, and the collapse of the Soviet Union were all distinct events. The media in Russia was still under centralized control, but television began to report the fall of one European Communist regime after another in response to these political shifts.

#2

The Bush administration was focused on the Gulf War and the first Gulf War, and did a good job of cleaning up the pieces after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Right-wing autocracies have a better track record of emerging from political repression and achieving democratic and economic success.

#3

The 1990s saw the beginning of a debate over what the new world order should look like. Was it a unipolar world where the United States, with most of Europe in tow, would set the agenda and enforce its will. Or was it a multipolar or nonpolar world, with no center of moral gravity.

#4

The importance of American engagement has never been higher, and it is our responsibility to lead in this bloodiest century. If we do not live up to our responsibilities, if we shirk the role which only we can assume, we will one day pay the highest price for our neglect.

#5

Bush lost to a man who had no foreign policy experience, and his slogan, It’s the economy, stupid, efficiently discarded foreign policy and the Cold War from the campaign. Clinton’s 1992 campaign had deftly exploited the ongoing recession and the end of the Cold War to paper over his lack of qualifications in the international arena.

#6

Clinton was able to get NATO to intervene in Yugoslavia in 1994, which helped force Milosevic to accept the Dayton Accords and bring the war to an end.

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