"The concept of the restructuring of the economic mechanism has now become clearer to us. In continuing to develop the…"

"Profound changes have taken place in social life, For the first time in history, the working man has become the maste…"

"The totalitarian system in the Soviet Union and in most of its satellites is breaking down, and our nations are looki…"

"I began my book about perestroika and the new thinking with the following words: "We want to be understood". After a …"

"The reform policies of the Gorbachev government were, in effect, its own attempt to create what had been termed, with…"

"Launched in 1985, perestroika has created the preconditions for a peaceful transition of the country into the mainstr…"

"For the first time since the Cold War began the U.S.S.R. had a ruler who did not seem sinister, boorish, unresponsive…"

"Gorbachev's impressionability also showed up in economics. He had been aware, from his travels outside the Soviet Uni…"

"Gorbachev was surprisingly receptive. He echoed some of Shultz's thinking in his 1987 book, Perestroika: "How can the…"

"Perestroika is an urgent necessity arising from the profound processes of development in our socialist society. This …"