Reader Response

June, 1990

In early February 1990, the Soviet Communist Party, led by Mikhail Gorbachev, issued a new platform. We thought the following passages were worth repeating. Perhaps someone will send a copy to the Republican and Democratic platform committees.The party seeks to place man in the center of social development, providing him with worthy living and working conditions, guaranteeing him social justice, political liberty and possibilities for comprehensive development and spiritual fulfillment, and rega...