A few months after the politburo chose him as Soviet supremo in early 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev halted his cortege in downtown Leningrad for an impromptu walkabout that signalled change was in the air.
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Newly published by Palmetto Publishing, The Great Vorobey Migration chronicles one woman's childhood in Soviet Ukraine and her family's immigration to America during the era of Gorbachev's reforms.