Lessons from the Past (A Review of Various Views on the Soviet Union's Collapse in Russia)

Author: Li Xinggeng et al.
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book includes the following content:
1. The views of the main leaders of the former Soviet Union and Russia on the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union, mainly the relevant statements of three successive presidents: Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin.
2. The analysis by Russian political parties and other scholars on the causes and lessons of the Soviet Union's dramatic changes.
The main issues covered in this book include the following aspects:
- A general evaluation of the Soviet Union's more than seventy years of socialist history;
- Views on the historical status, major achievements, and serious shortcomings of the Soviet model;
- An analysis of the causes leading to the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union;
- An analysis of the self-construction issues of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union;
- A critique of Mikhail Gorbachev's "humane democratic socialism";
- The lessons of the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union;
- Opinions on the reforms in Russia after the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union, and so on.