Abstract
Gorbachev's finest hour was the period when, on the hand, the harsh, centralized apparatus of state control still operated and, on the other, the country and the world watched in amazement as the number one Communist overturned all former dogmas, after another. The image of a warrior fighting the forces of darkness, recognizing no taboo, ennobled the general secretary to an unusual degree. In those splendid years of 1985-87, it was as if he were astride the steed of history. Even Reagan, that master of communication, seemed like a wooden dummy next to him. Gorbachev read the delight in the faces of Moscow intellectuals and saw the rapture among crowds of people in the West, which could not believe its eyes.
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