Publication

This issue of Russia in Global Affairs opens with an interview of Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president, 20 years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It also looks at, among other issues, how the concept of the 'End of History' failed to eliminate the political divide between Russia and Europe; the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 on economic and political change in China and democratization in South Korea and Taiwan; and Russia's penchant for illiberal political orders.