Perestroika: new thinking for our country and the world.

The New Leader | December 14, 1987| | Copyright

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World

By Mikhail S. Gorbachev Harper & Row. 254 pp. $19.95.

WHAT HAS BEEN happening in Mikhail S. Gorbachev's Russia can best be understood if we see it in the larger context of what has happened in other countries at other times.

A society is in crisis (not necessarily overt, like our Great Depression). A new leadership comes to power, defines the situation as critical and prescribes reform policies. If sizable elements of the society are responsive, a reform movement emerges. Unless cut short by ...

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