Perestroika and after: Comrade Ligachev tells his side. (Interview)

From: The Nation | Date: December 2, 1991| Author: vanden Heuvel, Katrina | Copyright information

Yegor Kuzmich Ligachev may have been one of the best-known and most important, but also most poorly understood, political figures in the perestroika drama that began to unfold in the Soviet Union in 1985. By 1987 much of the Western media tended to portray the Communist Party's Number 2 leader as the archrival of perestroika, a die-hard conservative, even a reactionary, who opposed all the liberalizing political and economic reforms championed by Mikhail Gorbachev. When he retire...

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