Gorbatchev et le Canada : l’histoire méconnue.
À l’occasion du décès de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, il n’est pas inintéressant de voir le rôle, obscur mais important, joué par le Canada dans la genèse de la glasnost et de la pérestroïka.
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