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The former, though very recent, number two person in the Soviet Union’s hierarchy — Yegor Ligachev — starts his memoirs with the observation that Gorbachev’s policy ‘was facing West but appeared to be with its back to the supreme interests of the Motherland.’ ‘I am convinced,’ adds Ligachev, ‘that this basic defect of Gorbachev’s policy has led the country to a catastrophe.’1
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E. Ligachev, Zagadka Gorbacheva (Gorbachev’s Riddle) (Novosibirsk: Interbook, 1992), p. 3.
Henry Kissinger, ‘A Plan for Europe,’ Newsweek, June 18, 1990, p. 33.
Henry Kissinger, ‘How to achieve the new world order,’ Time, March 14, 1994, pp. 75–6, an excerpt from his new book Diplomacy.
Henry Kissinger, ‘Not this partnership,’ The Washington Post, November 24, 1993, p. A17.
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Trofimenko, H. (1997). ‘New World Order’ and Russian-American Relations. In: Malik, H. (eds) The Roles of the United States, Russia and China in the New World Order. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25189-6_3
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