Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
The Gorbachev phenomenon is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years - developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial historical events and social forces that explain Glasnost and political and economic life in the Soviet Union today.
D’Agostino et al. (Thu,) studied this question.