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A Time for Peace 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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THIS book is a collection of state-
ments made between March and October 1985, since my election as
General Secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee. Its
content represents my own and my colleagues ideas, arising from
reflections on the past and the present, a contemplation of the
future, and from talks with very different people: factory managers
and workers, farmers and scientists, politicians from other coun-
tries, my friends, and my critics.
This book naturally reflects this particular historical moment,
which not only prompts, but, at times, dictates a definite approach
to problems facing the Soviet Union, as well as ways of seeking
their solution. But the present is so packed with events and changes
that sometimes even a single day may be equivalent to a whole
epoch in terms of the scope of decisions that have to be made and of
the significance of what must be accomplished for present and
future generations. This is convincingly demonstrated by the expe-
rience of any country.
To a considerable extent, this complex decision-making proc-
ess is also true of the domestic tasks facing our state which com-
mand the attention of the Soviet Union s leadership. We have major
achievements as well as quite a few unresolved problems, some of
which are quite serious. I shall not list them here, as they are dealt
with in sufficient detail in this book. I wish to stress only that a
country which has set itself the primary task of raising its people s
standard of living and quality of life cannot but have a vital stake in
peace, in tranquil and normal international affairs, and in mutually
advantageous cooperation. Our foreign policy is an organic and
logical extension of our domestic policy.
The present-day world situation causes grave anxiety among
our people. I believe that these apprehensions are shared by many
Americans. Mankind now faces the most crucial choice in civiliza-
tion s history; a cl~ ice that must be made today, before it is too late.
It is a choice between further straining international tensions or
relaxing them, between escalating the arms race to cosmic propor-
A Time for Peace 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书