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use it was spiritually akin to the line of Andropov in 1982–83. So the sweeping changes of 1985–86 proceeded with an enthusiastic momentum. And Gorbachev clearly intended to go further still. He had inherited only the Brezhnev position as a mere first among equals; he strove, and . to strive, for something more.