The New Russia

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First published in Russian as После Кремля/Posle Kremlya, © Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, 2015

This English edition © Polity Press, 2016

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-0391-9

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931- author.

Title: The new Russia / Mikhail Gorbachev.

Other titles: Posle Kremlya. English

Description: English edition. | Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2016. | First published in Russian as Posle Kremlya, Moskva : Ves Mir, 2014. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015042490 (print) | LCCN 2015049601 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509503872

(hardback) | ISBN 9781509503902 (Mobi) | ISBN 9781509503919 (Epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931- | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931---Political and social views. | Presidents--Soviet Union--Biography. | Ex-presidents--Soviet Union--Biography. | Kommunisticheska, a parti, a Sovetskogo So, uza--Biography. | Perestroika--History. | Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991. | Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991- | Social change--Russia (Federation)--History. | Political culture--Russia (Federation)--History. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.

Classification: LCC DK290.3.G67 G67213 2016 (print) | LCC DK290.3.G67 (ebook) | DDC 947.085/4092--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015042490

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