[lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier

[// ravi]

On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> The thing about Gorbachev is that he came at the end of line of reform leaders that the central committee was throwing up.  It's very easy to believe that if it wasn't him, it would have been the next or the next, and that the committee had primed themselves to follow him before he led. And insofar as he did lend a personal touch, there's a lot of case to be made that he fucked up his mission badly.  It's not accident that he was washed away in history's flood.  He helped.

Michael,

do you feel we (Russia and the world) would be the same today if Putin had succeeded Chernenko?

	—ravi