Gorbachev-Foundation’s new book “The Union Could Have Been Preserved” comes out of print

     The Union Could Have Been Preserved. The White Book: Documents and Facts about the Policies of Mikhail Gorbachev to Reform and Preserve the Multinational State (Soyuz mozhno bylo sokhranit. Belaya Kniga: Dokumenty i fakty o politike M.S. Gorbacheva po reformirovaniyu i sokhraneniyu mnogonatsionalnogo gosudarstva). Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. M.: AST: AST MOSCOW, 2007, 526 pages.
     Compiled by Anatoly Chernyayev, Aleksandr Veber, Pavel Palazchenko, Boris Slavin, Vladlen Loginov, Lyudmila Puchkova, Nadezhda Korolyova, and Tamara Aleksandrovna
    General Editorship of Vladlen Loginov
     This collection of documentary materials presents a broad picture of the nationalities policy in the period of Perestroika (1985—1991) and of the circumstances and causes of the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
     The book contains excerpts from verbatim records of speeches at the Party congresses and plenums of the CPSU Central Committee, meetings of the Congresses of People’s Deputies and the Supreme Court of the USSR, as well as materials reflecting the activities of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, state acts and Party resolutions, records of telephone conversations, protocols of interrogations of GKChP [State Committee for the State of Emergency] members (coup-plotters), etc. The book also contains excerpts from memoirs of participants in the events.
   
Most of the documents presented in the book have been published for the first time.

Contents

Foreword (to the Second Edition)
Part I.
     Symptoms of the Crisis
Part II.
     Problems of the Federation
Part III.
     Towards a New Union Treaty
Part IV.
     The Novo-Ogaryovo Process
Part V.
     The Coup. Disruption of Signing of the Union Treaty
Part VI.
     The Belovezh Tragedy
In Place of a Summary. Can the Union Be Rebuilt?
Name Index