Europe and the Communists

by V. V. Zagladin

286 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1977

About the author

Soviet politician and ideologist and one of the leading theoreticians of perestroika. He was a collaborator and adviser to Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev and, among Soviet politicians, one of those who was the closest to Western Europe. A personal friend of François Mitterrand, Willy Brandt and Giorgio Napolitano,

Zagladin was the theorist of a reformed communism that would be very close to European social democracy.