'While his Tunbridge Wells counterpart works himself up over trivia, outraged
Sverdlovsk is witnessing a real crisis. He may blame Mr Gorbachev for it, but actually it's rooted in the very nature of the Soviet system, and Gorbachev has done no more than bring it to the surface in order to tackle it.'
The 41st BBC Reith Lectures: The rediscovery of Politics, Authority, Culture and Community on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)