New political thinking

New political thinking (or simply new thinking)[a] was the doctrine put forth by Mikhail Gorbachev as part of his reforms of the Soviet Union. Its major elements were de-ideologization of international politics, abandoning the concept of class struggle, priority of universal human interests over the interests of any class, increasing interdependence of the world, and mutual security based on political rather than military instruments. The doctrine constituted a significant shift from the previous principles of the Soviet foreign politics.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Мы́шление: как Михаил Горбачев изменил русский язык
  2. ^ "Gorbachev's New Thinking", by David Holloway, Foreign Affairs, vol.68 no.1
  3. ^ "Gorbachev and New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy, 1987-88", USDOS archive
  4. ^ New Thinking: Foreign Policy under Gorbachev, in: Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Russia: A Country Study, Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996.


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