PERESTROIKA: NEW THINKING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND THE WORLD – MIKHAIL GORBACHEV – 1987
A historically important hardcover copy of Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev, published during one of the most consequential periods in modern Soviet and Cold War history.
This copy is a First Edition, First Printing, confirmed directly by the copyright page, which states FIRST EDITION and includes the complete number line ending in 1.
BOOK DETAILS
- Title: Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
- Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
- Publisher: Harper & Row
- Publication Year: 1987
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: First Printing
- Format: Hardcover
- Dust Jacket: Included
- ISBN: 0-06-039085-9
- ISBN-13: 9780060390853
- Printed in the United States
- A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book
ABOUT THE BOOK
Written while Mikhail Gorbachev was leading the Soviet Union, Perestroika presents his ideas for political, economic and social reform at a pivotal moment in world history.
The term perestroika, meaning restructuring, became closely associated with Gorbachev's effort to reform the Soviet system.
The book discusses subjects including:
- Soviet political reform
- Economic restructuring
- Soviet foreign relations
- The Cold War
- U.S.–Soviet relations
- International diplomacy
- Nuclear tensions and disarmament
- World politics
- Social and governmental reform
- The future of the Soviet Union
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE
Published in 1987, this book appeared during the period when Gorbachev's reforms were dramatically changing the political climate of the Soviet Union.
His policies of perestroika and glasnost became defining concepts of the late Cold War period and played an important role in the political transformation of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
For collectors of Cold War material, this is particularly appealing as a book written by one of the central figures involved in those historic events.
FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING
The copyright page clearly states:
FIRST EDITION
and displays a number line ending in:
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This confirms the book as a First Printing of the First Edition.
CONDITION
Vintage pre-owned hardcover with original dust jacket.
This copy presents very nicely overall, with strong navy, white and yellow dust-jacket graphics and a striking photographic portrait of Gorbachev on the rear.
The hardcover and interior appear clean and well maintained, with normal minor signs of previous handling and shelf storage consistent with a book from 1987.
Please review all photographs carefully, as they show the actual book being offered and are an important part of the condition description.
GREAT FOR
- Cold War history collectors
- Soviet Union / USSR history
- Mikhail Gorbachev collectors
- Russian history collections
- Political history
- U.S.–Soviet relations
- First edition nonfiction collectors
- International relations
- Presidential and world-leader memorabilia
- 20th-century history collections
A desirable 1987 First Edition, First Printing of one of the defining political books of the final years of the Soviet Union.