If you'd like to print out this page, click the Print button above. Alternatively, you may click the printer icon on your browser's toolbar, or choose File>Print from the menu.     Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution: Perceiving the End of Threat. Barbara Farnham. Political Science Quarterly, Summer 2001 v116 i2 p225 1. How did Reagan view the Soviet Union during his first term in office? 2. What actions of Mikhail Gorbachev helped change Reagan’s mind about the Soviet Union? 3. How does the author explain Reagan’s changed perception of the Soviet Union? 4. In what ways did the Reagan administration misunderstand the distribution of power within the top levels of the Soviet political hierarchy?