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Mikhail Gorbachev: A Preliminary Strategic Assessment |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE DEMISE OF THE SOVIET UNION |
| Author: Richard C. Thornton |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 3,904 Words, 25,332 Characters |
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The major thrust of analysis evaluating Gorbachev's leadership role in the former Soviet Union has centered on his domestic reform program, perestroika, and glasnost, with relatively little attention paid to the rapid evolution of Soviet foreign policy during his chairmanship. A comprehensive understanding of this literally revolutionary period would appear to require a broader and more balanced approach, to include the interrelationship of external to internal developments, both political and economic. Indeed, the record strongly suggests a inextricable, even causal, relationship between Gorbachev's foreign and domestic policies.
Gorbachev's fundamental objective was the economic and military modernization of the Soviet Union, and the arrangement of a dramatic reduction in external s...
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...he Soviet successor state finally emerges from its internal transformation, in five to ten years, it will emerge as a far more powerful political and economic state than it was when Gorbachev initiated the process, both in the absolute sense of possessing a more efficient political economic system, and in the relative sense of its position in the balance of forces on the Eurasian landmass. vbcrlf
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