Word: democratizatsiya
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...picture might be on their posters too. However, that would be because the demonstrators would see him as not just a reformer but a liberator. That is one role that Mikhail Gorbachev does not want, since it could make him the protagonist in a tragedy. If glasnost and democratizatsiya seem to be tearing the Soviet Union apart, Gorbachev may be in the position of having either to order a crackdown himself or to yield to a successor who would do so. He, like Deng, may yet discover that starting a counterrevolution is far easier than determining where it leads...
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