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...GORBACHEV by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson...
...communist, a convinced communist. For some that may be fantasy but for me it is my main goal." For those who follow the travails of Mikhail Gorbachev, that forthright credo, proclaimed last December, is increasingly shadowed by questions of apostasy. Is this guardian of Marxism really a true believer or the architect of a final loss of faith...
...Their thorough reporting produces a portrait of a leader who "was changing in front of the nation's eyes" as he confronted the hugeness of the task facing his crumbling empire. Shortly after taking power, Doder and Branson report, Gorbachev embraced an aide's suggestion that he study Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People; as a result, his public style was transformed. He abandoned the cant of Marxism and brusquely told opponents...
...hands." But as Doder and Branson point out, "Russia is a country that fervently needs an ideology, a set of beliefs, a religion." Much of the dogma that has shaped the past seven decades of Soviet life has already been abandoned, but what new faith will Mikhail Gorbachev offer his people...
...letter, President Gorbachev noted that the Soviet Union needs additional assistance in terms of technical aid and credits...