Gorbachev's Ethnic Surprise

Gorbachev's Ethnic Surprise

Paul Goble, in Problems of
Communism (July-August 1989) U.S. Information Agency, 301 Surprise 4th st. 5i.W., Washington, D.C. 20547.
Mikhail Gorbachev must dread reading Russian-born Gennadiy Kolbin in 1986, Pravda. Each day brings fresh news of eth- the appointment sparked mass demonstra- nic unrest in his country, whether it be tions. But Kolbin himself was soon forced Baltic states demanding their indepen- to become "more Kazakh than his Kazakh dence or Armenians and Azerbaijanis predecessor,"...

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