Tatyana Zaslavskaya
In 1983 Tatyana Zaslavskaya was an economist at the elite branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Siberia. However, that year she wrote the 'Novosibirsk
Report', an attack on the top-heavy bureaucratic Soviet economy which drew the attention of the KGB - but also the Politburo including Gorbachev, whose perestroika owes much to her ideas. Now in the political arena as a member of the Congress of People's
Deputies, she is at the heart of the movement to implement perestroika, and is one of very few prominent women in Soviet politics. Presenter Jenni Murray
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