Amount Quote by Stefan Heym

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop…

— Stefan Heym

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would…

— Slavoj Zizek

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

— Stefan Heym

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

— Alexander Dubcek

If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United…

— Frank Chodorov

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed,…

— Jacques Delors

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

— Robert Kagan

Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace…

— Mikhail Gorbachev