Perestroika's Impact on Soviet History

Georgy Smirnov investigates the reforming policies in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev.

Mikhail Gorbachev s report ‘October and Perestroika: the Revolution Continues' is attracting tremendous attention from the world public, particularly the historians. He gave interpretations of major events of the pre-revolutionary period in the development of Russia, the Great October Socialist Revolution, the building of socialism in the USSR and the results achieved. He also spoke at length about the problems of the continuing perestroika, and about international relations.

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