When was Michail Gorbachev elected General secretary ?
Her essay " I Can not Forsake My Principles " ( I Can not Waive Principles ) was published in the newspaper " Sovetskaya Rossiya " on March 13 , 1988 , at a time when Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev were abroad , and cited an anti-Gorbachev report by the secretary of the Party 's Central Committee , Yegor Ligachev .