Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
Political events, where the soviet people were, in fact, breaking free of their past. So it has sort of multiple meanings. And actually, the concept of freedom is dealt with quite a lot in the book. Cspan whats the book about . Guest well, the book is about my love affair and eventual marriage with a member of gorbachevs inner circle, a man who was a member of the communist party and the head of the soviet Space Program at the time. I should say the civilian program. But really, its this story set against the backdrop of the end of the cold war and the collapse not only of the soviet union but the end of soviet communism. Cspan what years did you write about . Guest well, the main part of the story really takes place between 1986 and 1991, the very last years of soviet rule. Cspan what were you doing in 1986 . Guest well, i was traveling back and forth quite a lot before i met the man who became my husband, and i was representing the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute at the time. Id h
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