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Marx had it wrong. Does Gorbachev? (Karl Marx, Mikhail Gorbachev) (70 Years After Lenin)

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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19871019
Author:Bialer, Seweryn

Marx had it wrong. Does Gorbachev?

Mikhail Gorbachev has set a course for the Soviet Union unpredecedented in its history. Entranced, the rest of the world speculates about his success or failure--and the consequences. But almost everything about the course of Communism has defied prediction--even the prediction of its founders.

Almost a century and a half ago, Marx and Engels started their famous manifesto with the words: "A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of a Communist revolution.' Marx expected revolution in economically and culturally developed countries, ...

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