Ramiz Alia

Alia in 1985.

Ramiz Alia (18 October 1925 – 7 October 2011) was an Albanian revisionist politician who held the position of First Secretary of the Party of Labor of Albania between 1985 to 1991, Chairman of the Presidium of the Albanian People's Assembly from 1982 to 1991, and was briefly the president of the Republic of Albania between 1991 to 1992.

Alia, while initially stalwart to his predecessor, Enver Hoxha, quickly deviated from the socialist road implemented a capitalist restoration in 1990. By 1991, he oversaw the dismantlement of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and its replacement with the modern bourgeois republic. For that reason, he is often considered by anti-revisionists to be the "Albanian Gorbachev."

See also

• Deng Xiaoping
• Mikhail Gorbachev