Volume 38, Number 7 · April 11, 1991
Mystery Man
By Xan Smiley
The Man Who Changed The World: The Lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev
by Gail Sheehy
HarperCollins, 401 pp., $22.95
The New Russians
by Hedrick Smith
Random House, 621 pp., $24.95
For all the millions of words consigned to the unwrapping of the Gorbachev enigma, the real man remains a riddle. Indeed, over the past six months—since the two books under review went to press—his performance may have become even more baffling, as the once universally hailed democratic savior of the East is observed creeping back into the clammy embrace of the Army, the KGB, and the Party apparatus.
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