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> C Doss:
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> >There is almost no left in the Western sense in Russia.
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> J Gulick:
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> I can count him on one finger. Boris Kagarlitsky.
Not that he matters, but Gorbachev is a pretty standard social democrat, isn't he?
(If social democrats don't count, then there's almost no left in the Western sense in the West, either.)