In a Time of Change

In a Time of Change

We are pleased to print below a chapter from Time of Change, by Roy Medvedev and Giulietto Chiesa (translated from the Italian by Michael Moore), a richly detailed account of the Gorbachev years in the Soviet Union. Medvedev is, of course, the distinguished Soviet historian, author of Let History Judge, a scathing account of Stalinism, and now a member of the Soviet parliament. Chiesa has served as Moscow correspondent for L’Unita, the daily paper of the Italian Communist party...