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“Critically evaluate: ‘The essence of Perestroika is for people to feel they are the country’s master.’- Gorbachev.”

  • UPSC 2010
  • Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World

Mikhail Gorbachev, addressing a party audience in Krasnodar on 18 September 1986, described the essence of Perestroika as making people feel they were the country's master rather than subjects of a class-favouring state.

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  • The Economic Content of Perestroika
  • The Political Content: Institutions of "Mastery"
  • Where the Claim Breaks Down
  • The Paradox of Political Empowerment

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