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Day: 19 February 2018

History & Anniversaries

Gorbachev: Accidental architect of world change

February 19, 2018 Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales) general secretary

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader, left a truly historical legacy. Aiming to reform bureaucratic rule he helped unleash forces that led to the complete collapse of Stalinism in Russia and eastern Europe. That […]

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