... is ambitious for power- not power for its own sake, but power to improve his own society"2.3 Anyhow, his personal attractive qualities and his remarkable profile of a Young Communist League member and a Law graduate from the Moscow State University, presented him as the most suitable Party Leader the USSR needs in order to optimize the unstable economic situation he inherited ... choice etc. In any case, adopted from the manifesto or not, Gorbachev's aim throughout the reforms was to democratize and renew the Soviet system, furthermore, setting off a new path of a major structural refor...

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