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Iron Curtain call: Mikhail Gorbachev
Economist Podcasts
Gorbachev's Reforms and the Soviet Empire
Gorbachev came to power in 1985 and he came to improve it, not to bury it. And yes, that faith was naive and bled in a good way to the end of the Soviet Empire because the Soviet Empire was really held by lies and repression. So how did his ideas about reform then lead to the dissolution of the Union?
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