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False. The Soviet Union underwent a forced transformation from an agricultural to industrial economy 60 years before Gorbachev - under Stalin. Read all about it on Wiki Answers.

Gorbachev is known for quite a different transformation of Russia: from an administrative command economic system and totalitarian society (loosely referred to as Communist) to a democratic society and market economy.

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