The Legacy of 1989, in Two Hemispheres

By Noam Chomsky

November marked the anniversary of major events in 1989: "the biggest year in world history since 1945," as British historian Timothy Garton Ash describes it. That year "changed everything," Garton Ash writes. Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms within Russia and his "breathtaking renunciation of the use of force" led [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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