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Episode 66: Zubok on the USSR's collapse

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What Vladimir Putin Has Learned From Gorbachev?

Vladislav Zubok: What lessons do you think Vladimir Putin has learned from the collapse of this Soviet regime? Alders: He keeps macroeconomic stability. And finally, let me say, he learned a lesson about the Russian people. For Gorbachev, who was a true internationalist and idealist in Leninist style, never knew how to manage nationalism.

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