Deng Xiaoping vs Gorbachev

Professor Pantsov will discuss why the USSR couldn’t follow the pattern of Chinese reforms in the decade leading up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Alexander V Pantsov is the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.

(@lseideas) is a centre for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy.

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