The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television - Hardcover

After 20 years as a correspondent and producer with CNN, Ghitis had a front-seat perspective on the end of Communism with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ghitis witnessed and reported on the end of the cold war and the sudden movement of the world into a new and uncertain direction, the transition from Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika to Boris Yeltsin's crackdown on unruly demonstrators unhappy with the changes wrought by the Russian brand of capitalism. She intersperses commentary on world developments with reprints of her articles about idealistic revolutionaries left unsponsored with the demise of the Soviet Union and the disappointment of smaller nations no longer able to gain assistance by positioning themselves between the U.S and the USSR. Ghitis notes the poverty, economic uncertainty, continued government instability, and domestic unrest among nations that expected global capitalism to turn the world into "one big free trade zone." Readers interested in international issues will enjoy this recollection of world-changing events and behind-the-scenes news gathering. Vanessa Bush
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