The BBC has an interesting piece on Hu Jintao (current President of China) and how he's alternately been seen as either a reformer in the Gorbachev model or as a new hard-liner. I think we should remember that this isn't as contradictory as it sounds - Gorbachev was not, after all, aiming to destroy the USSR, he was trying to stengthen it.
By the way, for anyone who likes Tom Clancy novels: One of the weirdest books I've ever read in that genre (but not by Clancy himself) was set in the remarkably short span between the Gulf War and the fall of the USSR. I can't remember the name at the moment, but when I do I'll post it.
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