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World Service,28 Jun 1993,28 mins

Gorbachev: A man to do business with

The World That Came in From the Cold

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First broadcast in 1993. Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985 - the fourth Soviet leader in three years. The old guard was dead, and Gorbachev would dramatically transform relations between East and West.

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