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Alexander Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet Reforms (1090 words) |
 | Alexander Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet Reforms |
| Alexander Yakovlev rose through the Communist Party ranks to become one of the most vocal critics of the Stalinist past and a passionate advocate of democratization in the second half of the 1980s. |
| Yakovlev writes in his memoir that he prepared this document in several drafts earlier in the year but hesitated to present it to Gorbachev because he believed his own official standing at the time was still too junior. |
| Alexander Yakovlev; devised Gorbachev reforms - The Boston Globe (718 words) |
| Alexander Yakovlev, who spearheaded former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's political reforms of openness known as glasnost and boldly exposed Communist crimes, died yesterday. |
| Yakovlev, born in the village of Korolyovo in the Volga River Yaroslavl region, fought in the Red Army in World War II and was badly wounded in 1943. |
| Yakovlev initiated the exposure of the secret 1939 Soviet pact with Nazi Germany that paved the way to the Soviet annexation of the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. |
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