Category: Mikhail Gorbachev

March 19, 2017

Khodorkovskii Gets It: Russian-Negotiated Transition, Not Western-Backed Revolution

by Gordon M. Hahn As Russia prepares to commemorate the 1917 Bolshevik coup which followed the initial phase of its violent revolution from below and led to its second phase, the Russian civil war and ultimately to totalitarian communism, some Russian opposition figures are beginning to think seriously about how to fashion a regime transformation […]

December 30, 2015

Perestroika’s Demise: Communist Party Reform, State Reorganization, and the Collapse of the USSR

by Gordon M. Hahn [The following was written in 2000 but the commissioner refused to publish it. Expanded it was published as my first book Russia’s Revolution From Above] Introduction The collapse of the Soviet Union was the consequence of a unique historical outcome – a revolution led not from […]