History & The Arts
Thirty-seven winters of discontent
...article by Henry Kissinger offering helpful advice to the Soviet leader, Newsweek declared 1989 to be Mikhail Gorbachev's winter of discontent. The reasons? Perestroika stuttering; nations demanding autonomy; consumer goods shortages and problems with entrenched government bureaucracies. 1990 Winters of discontent are no respecters of political ideology, so the next year...