On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:09 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> But the question wasn't whether Gorbachev was "good" or a "loser," but
> rather how important he was.
Wasn't he the tool of a CPSU that had pretty much decided that it wanted to end Communism and be like, say, the Christian Democrats in Germany? That's what I got from Boris Kagarlitsky when there still was a USSR.
Doug