Cartoon by Murschetz on Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union
Image ‘Ice-breaker Gorbachev.’ In 1988, the German cartoonist, Luis Murschetz, portrays the difficulties faced by Mikhail Gorbachev, the new First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, in his attempts at introducing economic and political reforms in the Soviet bloc as the basis for perestroika.
Source and copyright
Source: MURSCHETZ, Luis. Nägel mit Köpfen. München: Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, 1988. 384 S. ISBN 3-426-02730-5.
Copyright: (c) Murschetz