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World Service,28 Jun 1993,28 mins
Gorbachev: A man to do business with
The World That Came in From the ColdAvailable for over a year
First broadcast in 1993. Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985 - the fourth Soviet leader in three years. The old guard was dead, and Gorbachev would dramatically transform relations between East and West.
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