Ideas That Change the World

Last week saw the passing of Alexander Yakovlev, a distinguished Russian whose ideas made an important contribution to the demise of  communism and the rise of democracy and human rights in Russia. A key advisor to Gorbachev, Yakovlev was a man of principle and courage.  As a historian, he helped the Russian people understand their own history and the great crimes committed in the name of the communist revolution.  http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Yakovlev/yak-con0.html Check out the 1996 Conversations with History interview with Yakovlev to learn more about him and how his first meeting with Gorbachev in Canada launched a democratic revolution that ended the Cold War.