Was really hoping this would be a better companion with China Miéville’s October that I’m reading at the moment, but it most serves as a liberal (to even a conservative) hagiography of Gorbachev as opposed to a dissection of his political career within the context of the collapse. If this was more of a My Dinner With Andre type film that would be more tolerable, but with only like 10 minutes of interview footage the context given has to be…