Volume 36, Number 13 · August 17, 1989
The Threat to Gorbachev
By Peter B. Reddaway
Last December Mikhail Gorbachev's closest political ally, Alexander Yakovlev, said in a speech: 'We probably have no more than two to three years to prove that socialism as formulated by Lenin can work.' Perestroika, or restructuring, had, he said, brought little material benefit to ordinary people, and if it were to fail, the likely outcome would be 'a triumphant, aggressive, and avenging conservatism.'[1]
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