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The Government. With the party in chaos, Prime Minister Hans Modrow and his 28-member Cabinet, eleven of them non-Communists, ran the country. Krenz was replaced as head of state by Manfred Gerlach of the Liberal Democratic Party.
The Opposition. The party and government acknowledged popular unrest by meeting with representatives of nine opposition groups and five non-Communist parties.
Chagall: The Russian Years, 1907-1922 by Aleksandr Kamensky (Rizzoli; $100). Like the figures in his paintings, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) floated over formal artistic boundaries. This book tracks his flight from the Russian village that gave him his themes and folk style to St. Petersburg and beyond, where he...
Fantasy Furniture by Bruce M. Newman (Rizzoli; $50). A mythological mahogany bird to cradle an infant in 19th century Russia; jolly Black Forest bears to serve as chair-backs; gilded Venetian settees with shell motifs to turn salons into grottoes: thus did the dreams of burghers and kings like Bavaria...
The Art of Florence by Glenn Andres, John M. Hunisak and A. Richard Turner (Abbeville; $385). The cradle of the Renaissance in glorious color and reverential grandeur -- and at more than 25 lbs. the lap breaker of the season. There are no crowds of tourists to block the view and...