India, as a multinational country, has many things to learn from the Soviet experiment as well as the experience of CIS and the erstwhile CMEA countries.
Liberation of a hundred nationalities from Czarist oppression and creation of a multinational state based on the principle of peaceful coexistence of diverse cultures was the most significant historical contribution by Soviet revolution. The book derives its socialist inspiration from the celebrated essay of Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism? Reaction Strikes Europe.” The opening article written on the eve of disintegration of socialist camp gives a graphic picture on how the intellectual classes could engineer a counterrevolution with the help of USA and other developed countries. Perestroika, Glasnost and Socialism is a collection of twenty articles written during the past quarter century. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in comparative politics, international relations, and communist studies will find this book a source of stimulating ideas about the rapidly changing face of socialism. In other cases, the impact may be indirect and even unintentional, given the complex and interdependent nature of world politics and economics. In some cases, the impact might be intentional and direct, part of a conscious policy adopted by the Soviet Union. The result is a number of varying conclusions regarding the effects of glasnost and perestroika on the socialist community. The contributors to this volume approach their topics from varying perspectives, each singling out and examining different areas in the individual governments where the impact of Soviet reforms is likely to be strongest. The countries studied include Poland, Czechoslovakia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and North Korea. The sampling of socialist countries studied are roughly representative of the types of socialist states in existence today. This book makes a preliminary assessment of the impact of glasnost, perestroika, and related Soviet reforms on selected socialist countries. Although there is an abundance of scholarly inquiry into the effects on the Soviet socialist system of the historic reforms under Gorbachev's administration, relatively little attention has been paid to the impact these reforms might have on socialism outside the Soviet Union.
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