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Reformed Out of a Job; Gorbachev Is Left Ruling Kingdom of Air
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19911215
Author:Michael Dobbs
The people feel no mercy: You do good and no one thanks you. Czar Boris Godunov, in a poem by Alexander Pushkin
How will history judge Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev?
Of all the remarkable leaders to emerge in the 20th century - Lenin, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Mao - the last general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the last president of the Soviet Union is the most enigmatic. He was the Communist who dismantled communism, the reformer who was overtaken by his own reforms, the emperor who permitted the world's last multi-national empire to break apart. In the eyes of some, ...
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