Bruce's History Lessons: Gorbachev's tightrope act
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Bruce's History Lessons: Gorbachev's tightrope act.
This week (March 11) in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His six-year reign as Soviet leader was a fascinating high-wire act in which he precariously balanced between triumph and failure, reform and reaction, and liberalization . Read Bruce's History Lessons: Gorbachev's tightrope act...
