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Perestroika. New Thinking for Our Country and the World. By Mikhail Gorbachev. New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Pp. 254.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Richard Szawlowski
Richard Szawlowski*
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Vancouver, B.C.
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 878 - 886
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References

1 Pravda, Nov. 5, 1987, at 11.

2 Pravda, Feb. 26, 1988, at 7. Pravda, Mar. 26, 1988, at 4, reports on a second Chinese edition, a Spanish and an Arabic one.

3 Pravda, Feb. 20, 1988, at 4. Pravda, Mar. 26, 1988, at 4, reported that in Italy the book “still firmly holds first place on the list of the most popular publicistic books in the country.”

4 Speech at Plenum of Central Committee of the CPSU, Pravda, Feb. 19, 1988, at 2.

5 At a meeting with leaders of the “mass media, ideological institutions and creative unions.” Pravda, Jan. 13, 1988, at 2.

6 The previous program of the CPSU (1961) read:

Peaceful coexistence forms the basis for peaceful competition between socialism and capitalism on an international scale, and represents a specific form of the class struggle between them. While the socialist countries pledge themselves consistently to peaceful coexistence, they aim at unremitting strengthening of the positions of the socialist world system in its contest with capitalism.

7 Program of the CPSU in Kommunist, No. 3, 1986, at 142.

8 Id. at 148.

9 Id. at 152.

10 Recounting this episode, Pravda, Apr. 10, 1987, also prints a passage where Gorbachev, answering a voice from the crowd that says the truth should be heard, stated: “The truth, the truth, otherwise you will not get anywhere. When there is no truth, it is unclear what to do.”

11 Pravda, Jan. 13, 1988, at 2.

12 Speaking of lies, consider the following by former Soviet Minister of Defense Sokolov, in Pravda, Feb. 23, 1987, at 2: “The whole heroic history of the Soviet Armed Forces confirms the consistency of their lofty destiny—to defend the socialist Fatherland. They have not attacked anybody in the past.” See, in the same vein, the present incumbent, Yazov, in Pravda, Feb. 23, 1988, at 2.

13 V. I. Lenin, Selected Works 543, 554 (1968).

14 Program, supra note 7, at 106, 109.

15 Galvin, The INF Treaty—No Relief from the Burden of Defence, NATO Rev., Feb. 1988, at 2, 3.

16 Pravda, Feb. 19, 1988, at 3.

17 Pravda, Mar. 1, 1988, at 5.

18 Pravda, Feb. 19, 1988, at 3.