Possible Clues:

• Soviet economic program begun in '88
• Awful porkies are told, dismiss­ing old reform agenda
• Gorbachev policy
• '80s Soviet policy
• Originally a risk to peer reforming economic policy
• Political reforms abroad operate with risk
• Economic policy comes with risk - operate differently
• A bloke inhibiting others with a reformist approach?
• Restructuring in Soviet Union in 1980s
• Gorbachev's reform policy