Stock in Eastern Europe. Facets of Globalization: Difficult Issues of Contemporary Development (With a Foreword and Afterword by Mikhail Gorbachev). In the joint research, conducted on the initiative and with participation of Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian scholars attempt to realize the new realities of the globalizing world searching response to the necessity of "warning" knowledge and revealing the humanistic alternative to the existing state of things. The phenomenon of globalization is viewed from various perspectives - social, economic, politological and geopolitical..