Western visitors are more than welcome in the model city of Partygrad, conceived as a symbol of progress; but all is not quite what it seems in the "lighthouse
Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on
Focuses on the six years of perestroika in the Soviet Union and suggests that many of the problems confronting the new states were first created during this tim
Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled Soviet economy. Wide-ranging in scope, harnessed with cultural and political