Mikhail Gorbachev's visions of a reformulated Soviet Union
encompassing glasnost, perestroika and The New Thinking after the
abrupt departure of the ailing Konstantin Chernenko revolutionized
Soviet foreign policy and the CPSU as well. Though mentored by the
infamous Yuri Andropov, Gorbachev was not a product of the Great
Patriotic War but rather a new-age Russian technocrat who realized
that the experiment of the CPSU was coming to a close. He could not
anticipate that he would unleash a dynamic torrent of unintended
consequences that would cause the implosion of the entire Soviet
Union and its satellite system transforming the Russian experiment
in socialism to a new phase of experimental engagement with
western-style democracy. Students of the political dynamics of the
Russian empire will observe the evolutionary nature of the
transition that the visionary Gorbachev precipitated. Historians
and comparative political scientists will understand the gravity
and important implications that this dramatic twist in Russian
political history has wrought and the continued dramatic changes in
store for the Medvedev-Putin siloviki administration in the current
nationalized Russian state.
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