1985-2005. Twenty Years that Changed the World. Con CD-ROM

Presentation: Rolando Picchioni, Executive Director of The World Political Forum – Foreword: Andrei Grachev, Chairman of The World Political Forum’s Scientific Committee – Introduction: Mikhail S. Gorbachev, President of the World Political Forum – Part I – I. The Second Russian Revolution - the End of a History? – II. Exit from Totalitarianism - Which Way Out? – III. Challenges of Democratic Transition in Post-Totalitarian Societies – IV. From Glasnost to the Freedom of the Press – Part II – V. Ending the Cold War: Lost Paradise? Lost Chance? – VI. Implosion of the USSR – Geostrategic Consequences – VII. A Strange Peace after the Cold War-Winners, Losers, New Actors – Part III – VIII. The Quest for National Identity in the Epoch of Integration – IX. Global challenges, Scattered Answers Conclusions: Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the World Political Forum – Annex I. Soviet Perestroika, the End of the Cold War and the Transformation of the International System – Annex II. Three Forks in the Road of Gorbachev’s Perestroika – Annex III. After 1989. Multilateralism and the Challenges of the New World – Selected bibliography – Sara Comuzzi and Andrea Pin, the World Political Forum’s Research Group.