Imran Khalid UsmanThe author is a civil engineer by profession. He was politically active during the era of General Zia ul Haq's military regime in Pakistan and was a member of the now defunct Pakistan Socialist Party of C. R. Aslam up to the early 1990s. He views favurably the policies of Gorbachev in the last years of the Soviet Union without ascribing to the view that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was historically a foregone conclusion. However, he conclusively considers communism and socialism as systems to be obsolete for the modern world. Email: mhikhalid@yahoo.com. Read More Read Less