When Mikhail Gorbachev carne to power on March II, 1985, a certain image of the Soviet Union was about to disappear. Unlike his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko, who was the textbook incarnation of waning Brezhnevian conservatism, the new first secretary of the CPSU, remarkably young having just celebrated his 54th birthday, would attempt to salvage whatever could be saved of a Soviet regime that was losing momentum and at risk of imploding, even though this would involve questioning the dogma of the state since the days of Stalin.
East meets West
Springer Praxis Books (formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)
2013-03-01
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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