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The situation which faced Russia’s leadership in 1856 had many similarities to the situation which Gorbachev is trying to deal with today in Soviet Russia. After a disastrous war which exposed the backwardness and moral poverty of a system which had seemed so strong to outward appearances, an agonising process of reassessment, reform, and modernisation had to be undertaken.
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Jensen, J.H. (1992). Prince Alexander Gorchakov: The Politics of Recovery. In: McKean, R.B. (eds) New Perspectives in Modern Russian History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22210-0_2
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