... has published a manifesto, which according to Martin Walker7, Gorbachev has read and implemented many of the reforms it proposes. However, the party-state elite, or the intelligentsia, were people of high rank, who have "betrayed" the Socialist system and shifted their beliefs and commitment from one socio-economic formation to another one, or in other words from Communism to ... ...

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