After years of rapprochement, the connection among Russia and the West is extra strained now than it's been long ago 25 years. Putin’s explanations, his purposes for looking disagreement with the West, stay for plenty of a secret. now not for Mikhail Gorbachev. during this new paintings, Russia’s elder statesman attracts on his wealth of information and event to bare the improvement of Putin’s regime and the intentions at the back of it. He argues that Putin has considerably decreased the achievements of perestroika and is a part of an over-centralized approach that provides a precarious destiny for Russia. confronted with this, Gorbachev advocates a thorough reform of politics and a brand new fostering of pluralism and social democracy.

Gorbachev’s insightful research strikes past inner politics to deal with wider difficulties within the area, together with the Ukraine clash, in addition to the worldwide demanding situations of poverty and weather switch. especially else, he insists that options are to be came across via returning to the ambience of debate and cooperation which used to be so instrumental in finishing the chilly War. 

This booklet represents the summation of Gorbachev’s considering at the path that Russia has taken for the reason that 1991 and stands as a testomony to at least one of the best and so much influential statesmen of the 20th century.