Mikhail Gorbachev died a man whose time had long passed. He saw the opportunity to create a new Russia, built around a reformist movement known as Glasnost and Perestroika. He understood that the Soviet Union could not survive as it was, though he was not the first to see it: Yuri Andropov, a superb head […]
The Death of Gorbachev
Thoughts in and around geopolitics.
