Gorbachev and the Origins of His Reforms
![Twenty-Seventh Party Congress, CPSU, March 1985, Gorbachev leadership](/section18_TheEndoftheRussianRevolution/images/Election_of_Gorbachev.png) Election of Gorbachev
![Mikhail Gorbachev, 1985](/section18_TheEndoftheRussianRevolution/images/Gorbachev_1985.png) Gorbachev, 1985
EXTRACT FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. Orlando Figes, Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991 (Pelican, 2014), pp. 381-86.
...There comes a moment in every old regime when people start to say: 'We cannot go on living like this any more.' That feeling started in the 1970s. But there was no social force to bring about a change...
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