The imperial collapse was an unintended consequence of Gorbachev s desire to humanize socialism and save the USSR. He utterly failed in both tasks, but Russia and other Soviet republics were
Revisiting Robert Scheer’s 1987 Los Angeles Times review: “From Moscow, First Report of an Unprecedented Call for Change: The Gorbachev Manifesto.”
ScheerPost Editor’s Note: In 1987, Robert Scheer, then a LA Times staff writer, had been in Moscow for a month when he received an early copy of
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader whose vision of humane communism liberated millions, bridled the global arms race and knocked down the walls dividing East and West, has died, according to Russian news agencies.Gorbachev, who had been in.