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However, that figure may well be increasing under the reform policies of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. This year, another Soviet woman entered the first-year class at Emory College in Atlanta, marking the first time a citizen of the USSR has entered a four-year program at an American college...
Kovach also said he thought the Soviet's ability to study abroad signified increased openness brought about by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of glasnost...
...world. Even Moscow, the international capital of Marxism, has openly succumbed to the lures of creeping capitalism. To Francis Fukuyama, 36, deputy director of the State Department's policy- planning staff, all these events point to something of far broader significance than the reform policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. "What we may be witnessing," he writes, "is not just the end of the cold war, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy...
...some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang or Cambridge," no large state that espouses it as an ideology even pretends to be in the vanguard of history. Witness, as evidence, the glasnost-inspired admissions of economic failure and bureaucratic bungling that emanate almost daily from Gorbachev's Moscow...
Irving Kristol, founding publisher of the National Interest, says Fukuyama's article serves to "welcome G.W.F. Hegel to Washington." To Harries, the . piece "de-parochializes the debate over Gorbachev's policy and removes it from a cold war context." But Fukuyama also has plenty of critics. In general, conservatives, like historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, argue that he is excessively optimistic in predicting that Marxism's demise as an ideology means that the era of superpower conflict is over. Liberals like Leon Wieseltier of the New Republic charge that he is too complacent in proclaiming the triumph of democracies that have done...