The Washington Post, October 16th, 1987
For many of us, the difficulty in grasping what Mikhail Gorbachev is up to is in fitting the notion of reform to our belief that Soviet society is organized by a Marxist-Leninist party precisely to contain reform. It is not simply that it's hard to understand why the single ruling party would want to loosen its grip. It's hard to understand how that can even happen under a communist system. We know it can't. But how do we know? It's not enough to say that we consult our suspicions or our hopes, as the case may be. That gives us a political judgment-conservatives have suspicions about Kremlin c...
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