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Article: Jawaharlal Nehru.(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 16, 1996
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THE GORBACHEV FACTOR. By Archie Brown. OUP; 406 pages; Pounds 19.99 and $30
FAWNING histories of world statesmen can make bad reading; admiring ones are another matter. Archie Brown, who teaches politics at Oxford, sets out to put the record straight for the essentially tragic figure who freed Eastern Europe from the Soviet yoke and presided over the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev has come in for much criticism since he was elbowed aside by Boris Yeltsin. How distant his glasnost and perestroika now sound; almost as quaint as the "evil empire". The argument that Mr Brown develops is that Mr Gorbachev was unique for a leader of his classic ...