Ka whai wāhi ki te whiti i raro nei, me te whakahoki i te pātai i muri i roto i te reo ano rite te whiti: Passage: Mai riro mana rite Hekeretari Matua o te Communist Party o te Soviet Union i 1985, i anga Gorbachev i runga i te hōtaka hihiri o te whakahoutanga, whakaahuatia i roto i te ariā rua o te perestroika me glasnost, te tikanga ohaoha / whakarerekētanga tōrangapū me te tuwhera, i runga i te tikanga. whakaoho enei nekehanga ātete me te whakapae i runga i te taha o ngā mema pakeke o te nomenklatura. whakaoho hoki nga whakahoutanga etahi kaha me ngā nekehanga e kore i tūmanako Gorbachev.
te ātete me te whakapae