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...been in power for four years. In some ways, he was running for a second term in last Sunday's election of a new Congress of People's Deputies, seeking a mandate for his three-pronged pitchfork of perestroika (economic restructuring), glasnost (openness) and demokratizatsiya (democratization). Not since the Bolsheviks were trounced in the Constituent Assembly races of November 1917 had citizens of the Soviet Union been given the chance to vote in a real national election. This time some highly visible keepers of the Bolshevik faith fared poorly. But for Gorbachev the results could be, if he uses them...
Nominally, Soviet women enjoy the same rights as men. The Bolshevik Revolution promised political and social equality for the sexes, and the constitution guarantees it. But while women today are better educated, healthier and more fully represented in the professions and on local government councils than their mothers' generation was, they remain second- class citizens. At work -- women hold 51% of the jobs in the Soviet Union -- they find themselves confined to low-paying positions and are noticeably absent from management posts. In the Communist Party, they make up 29% of the membership, but no woman sits in the ruling...
Daniel Ortega Saavedra had one of the busiest weeks of his life last week. He spent the first few days in Moscow, attending the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Then, as Ortega was flying home, his wife Rosario Murillo gave birth to the couple's seventh child and first daughter. On Thursday night Ortega delivered what he described as the most difficult speech of his career, a 50-minute oration in which he offered to negotiate a cease-fire with the contras. The next day Ortega...
...decades of Soviet history, much of it officially ignored or obfuscated -- and nearly all of it haunted by the ghost of Joseph Stalin. But Gorbachev had insisted there should be no "blank pages" in his country's past. Now, in an address marking the 70th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, he had an ideal occasion to demonstrate the glasnost (openness) that has become a watchword of his 31 months in power. What he revealed instead was the limits of glasnost and the cautious path he must tread between foot-dragging conservatives and impatient reformers within the Communist Party leadership...
...forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Indeed, questions about the limits of the new reforms will be on the minds of the Kremlin's leaders as they mark the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week, just as the issue was discussed by those gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People last week to plot their country's course. The debate is not only about the future but also about the past. Every Sunday at Moscow's newly reopened Novodevichy Cemetery, hundreds...