Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of SocialismMikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. In 1993 they decided that their conversations might be of interest to others and so they began to tape record them. From reminiscences of their starry eyed university days to reflections on the use of force to "save socialism" to contemplation of the end of the cold war, here is a far more candid picture of Gorbachev than we have