Mr. Gorbachev, on the other hand, recognized that his sluggish and authoritarian bureaucracy was the worst impediment to modernization. That is why the Soviet leader came more quickly to the view that political and economic change must go hand in hand.

• 在另一方面，戈尔巴乔夫承认，他的既迂腐又专权的官僚政府是现代化最大的阻碍。因此这位苏联领袖迅速意识到，政治与经济改革必须齐头并进。