Popis: |
Our world and our age are full of contrasts. Social systems and military blocs stand poised against one another with conflicting ideological frames of reference and value orientations. At the same time, as Mikhail S. Gorbachev remarked [in March 1976] at the Twenty-seventh CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] Congress, "in precisely this way, through a struggle of opposites, that is taking place under adverse circumstances and that to a large extent [may be compared to] groping in the dark, a contradictory but interdependent and largely integral world is taking shape." |