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Is Russia Reformable?
Change And Resistance From Stalin To Gorbachev
History is always full of surprises as it unfolds before us.
The Soviet Union, for decades a seemingly frozen monolith of totalitarian rigidity and paranoid bellicosity, suddenly finds itself under a leader in the person of Mikhail Gorbachev who calls for "radical restructuring," openness," and even a "revolution."
Outsiders justly wonder if this m