Gorbachev’s Revolution

Following Mikhail Gorbachev’s election as general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on April 23, 1985, his future aide Anatoly Chernyaev wrote in his diary: “There are great expectations of Gorbachev, just as there were of [one of his predecessors, Yury] Andropov. After all, what’s needed is a […]