[Mb-civic] The Political Tragedy of Russia

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The Political Tragedy of Russia 
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Reforms that Gorbachev set in motion have been derailed by the Kremlin and Washington.

By Stephen F. Cohen
Stephen F. Cohen, professor of Russian studies at New York University, is the author (with Katrina vanden Heuvel) of "Voices of Glasnost: Conversations With Gorbachev's Reformers" (W.W Norton, 1990) a

February 27 2005

The most important events of the late 20th century began to unfold nearly 20 years ago on March 11, 1985, when Mikhail S. Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union. Within a few weeks of his rise to power, the full-scale reformation he hoped to carry out inside his country and in its Cold War relations with the West was underway. 

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