Seine Revolution – und seine Akzeptanz vieler demokratischer Werte – waren so radikal, dass es rückblickend kein Wunder ist, dass Francis Fukuyama 1989 das „Ende der Geschichte“ ausrief.
So transformative was Gorbachev’s revolution – including his embrace of many democratic values – that, looking back, it is little wonder that in 1989 Francis Fukuyama famously declared the “end of history.”