By Echezona, Nduba C.
Those academics who are interested in soviet studies were thrilled with the phenomenon of Mikhail Gorbachev. At first, there was the thinking that thee reforms which he had launched were in the same mould of Kruschev's in 1956 when East European communist parties especially in Hungary, borrowed a fig leaf from him and want to withdraw from the Warsaw fact and the soviet bloc, they were clobbered.