Thermidor: the beginning of the end of the second Russian revolution?(Thermidor marked the historic end of the French Revolution)

Quadrant | June 1, 1999| | Copyright

HAVE YOU wondered what Mikhail Gorbachev is thinking now as Boris Yeltsin, his policies in tatters, clings to life? Maybe he said, "I told you so!" as the parliament reasserted itself against Yeltsin's imperial presidency, and as a liberal-democratic reformer, Galina Starovoitova, was recently assassinated. Perhaps Gorbachev is muttering, "If only ...", as another secretary of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yevgeny Primakov, has taken up the reins of state.

Some say history is always written from the victors' perspective. I beg to differ. Reminding ...

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