An entry in the ABC News Great TV News Stories series focusing on the installation and the first few years of the Soviet premiership of Mikhail Gorbachev.

From the VHS Box: "The story of the man who startled the world and his own people by instituting radical reforms, and who forever changed the Soviet Union and its relations with the West."

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