For China’s Xi and Other Strongmen, Gorbachev Showed Exactly What Not to Do

Though Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms were praised in the West, the collapse of the Soviet Union schooled a generation of authoritarian rulers in the dangers of tolerating any signs of dissent or democratic yearnings.

HANNAH BEECH
Author: HANNAH BEECH

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