title: Chapter Four Gorbachev and the traps of glasnost’
abstract: Chapter Four Gorbachev and the traps of glasnost'The reformer When Gorbachev came to power in March 1985, he was aware of the disastrous state of the country and the need for far-reaching reform.However, he did not present his reform in terms of abandoning an anachronistic, inefficient socioeconomic system, riddled with corruption and nepotism, but instead spoke of it as an improvement and modernization of the system which had worked for years, and as "a return to Leninism," in the superstructur