Gorbachev quotes Flashcards
“Our…mistake…
“Our…mistake was that we acted too late to reform our union.” - Mikhail Gorbachev
“Gorbachev’s initiatives…
“Gorbachev’s initiatives in the field of arms reduction were both significant and dramatic.” - Bhupinder Brar
“Gorbachev’s global…
“Gorbachev’s global agenda looked nothing short of utopian.” - Bhupinder Brar
“It look as if…
“It looked as if somewhere in the middle [of reform] he [Gorbarchev] gave up his original destination and decided to concentrate on crisis management and damage control.” - Bhupinder Brar
“What gave…
“What gave a fatal twist to the course of events in Gorbachev’s Soviet Union was not the ‘bad economics’ of perestroika, but the virtual impossibility of its politics.” - Bhupinder Brar
“The essence of…
“The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy.” - Mikhail Gorbachev
“The failure of…
“The failure of perestroika is one of those major and rare historical sea changes that will influence the course of mankind henceforth.” - John Blaney
“The Soviet economic…
“The Soviet economic system was first and foremost designed and constructed as an instrument of political control.” - John Blaney
“Without economic…
“Without economic reform, the Soviet Union would find itself threatened with falling even further behind the West.” - John Blaney
“By the end of 1990…
“By the end of 1990, many enterprises and local leaders were ignoring Moscow’s orders and doing whatever they could to try check their falling living standards and reduce local shortages.” - John Blaney
“The cumulative…
“The cumulative decay of the Soviet economic system in the decades before Gorbachev made the construction of such a program a Herculean task for him or anyone else.” - John Blaney
“We are still…
“We are still on the leash and the dog dish is still too far away, but now we can bark as loud as we want.” - Russian saying
