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The extraordinary expansion of Soviet education has produced a surging growth of new people, of whom M. Gorbachev is obviously the most outstanding. These men and women are at the heart of this book, unflinchingly castigating what they feel is wrong, but at the same time breathing a new spirit of democracy, optimism and confidence in spite of a legacy of intractable difficulty. Between them they have transformed the world’s perception of the Soviet Union. The editors have drawn their material from a wide spectrum of Soviet journals and newspapers.